groundsel tree

What does groundsel tree mean?

groundsel tree means "a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts".

What is another word for groundsel tree?

Close synonyms include groundsel bush, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, Baccharis halimifolia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is groundsel tree a common word?

groundsel tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for groundsel tree come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.