groundsel tree

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgroundsel bushconsumption weedcotton-seed treeBaccharis halimifolia

   Broadershrub

   Part ofBaccharis

Questions about 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.