quail brush

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   spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico

   Synonymsquail bushwhite thistleAtriplex lentiformis

   Broadersaltbush

Questions about quail brush

What does quail brush mean?

quail brush means "spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico".

What is another word for quail brush?

Close synonyms include quail bush, white thistle, Atriplex lentiformis. 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 quail brush a common word?

quail brush 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.