WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
ground′sel tree′,
- Plant Biologya composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America. Also called consumption weed.
- 1735–45
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