Definition of Salt tree

1. Noun. Spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms.

Exact synonyms: Halimodendron Argenteum, Halimodendron Halodendron
Group relationships: Genus Halimodendron, Halimodendron
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salt Tree

salt pans
salt plain
salt poisoning
salt ponds
salt pork
salt rheum
salt rheums
salt rush
salt sensitivity
salt shaker
salt shakers
salt solution
salt substitute
salt substitutes
salt tree (current term)
salt wasting
salt water
salt water boils
salt water marsh
salt water soap
saltando
saltant
saltants
saltarelli
saltarello
saltarellos
saltate
saltated
saltates

Literary usage of Salt tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"The Salt-tree Robinia, of which the blossoms are purple, is an exception. ... The Salt-tree grows naturally in salt fields, and will not flower but in a ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"It is found in northwest India and westward, and is sometimes distinguished as tamarisk salt-tree, from Its secreting salt which incruste its trunk in ..."

3. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"The Salt-tree Robinia, of which the blossoms are purple, is an exception. ... The Salt-tree grows naturally in salt fields, and will not flower but in a ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"It is found in northwest India and westward, and is sometimes distinguished as tamarisk salt-tree, from Its secreting salt which incruste its trunk in ..."

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