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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A resinous evergreen shrub (Larrea tridentata), having yellow flowers and aromatic foliage, native to the deserts of the southwest United States and Mexico.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Larrea Mexicana, a zygophyllaceous evergreen shrub of northern Mexico and the adjacent region, very resinous, and having a strong, heavy odor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A shrub (
Covillea mexicana ) found in desert regions from Colorado to California and southward through Mexico. It has yellow flowers and very resinous foliage with a strong odor of creosote.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
medicinal herb Larrea tridentata.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers
Etymologies
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Named for its smell which resembles that of creosote.
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