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burrobrush

n. an allergenic perennial shrub, (taxlink Hymenoclea salsola species noshow=1), found in the deserts of Arizona and neighboring states; the (vern: cheesebush).

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All around us were the soft rich grays and silvers, the pale golds and russets of the desert vegetation -- sagebrush, burrobrush, bunch grass and buckwheat, with here and there a strangely gesticulat­ing Joshua tree, rough barked, or furred with dry prickles, and tufted at the end of its many-elbowed arms with thick clusters of green metallic spikes.