Crossword clues for catclaw
Wiktionary
n. An acacia, specifically (taxlink Acacia greggii species noshow=1), now (taxlink Senegalia greggii species noshow=1), native to most of the border region of the US and Mexico.
WordNet
n. erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida [syn: cat's-claw, black bead, Pithecellodium unguis-cati]
Usage examples of "catclaw".
Lord Constable of the Realm, Tinnis Catclaw, who had proved his courage during the Battle of Holt Mallburn.
Tinnis Catclaw questioned the Brother casually about how talented persons made use of the so-called wind to scry and bespeak one another.
He moved a little way off, poking with his staff at the hard, cracked clay of the ground, the knobby yellow twigs of the catclaw snagging at his mantle and the blown dust blurring his tracks.
The girls stood along the bank of a dry wash at the edge of a patch of jojoba and catclaw bushes.
The orange soil was speckled by thickets of gray-green tamarisk and spindly catclaw trees, while crests of dark basalt wound across the valley floor like the shattered vestiges of some ancient and long-forgotten rampart.
A little brown rabbit skipped around a bunch of catclaw and sat twitching his whiskers and looking humorously at Givens.
Prince Conrig, riding with Cloudfell and Catclaw so as to be in the fore of the assault, possessed too meager a talent to grasp the message.
Conrig turned to Lords Catclaw and Cloudfell, who sat their horses close by.
Wherever the cactus roots or flash-flood washes left room, you saw thin chaparral, or stickerbush, from creosote and catclaw to eight- or ten-foot whitebark and paloverde.
Rowen guided Tanalasta away from a red catclaw bush, pulling her safely beyond the striking range of a half-hidden pixie-viper.
The clients stay well behind Herrero as the party crosses the flat, following his lead through catclaw, ocotillo, and dusty sagebrush.
The foothills loomed up here, too -- more lava formations, huge rocks balanced on top of each other and strewn along slopes that also bore catclaw, cholla, organ-pipe cactus abloom with pink and white and lavender flowers.
His unfocused gaze instinctively searched the prairie for hidden danger in the clumps of spiny mesquite and catclaw shrubs.
Beyond riparian woodland on the floodplain are thickets of mesquite and catclaw and these give way to chaparral and an evergreen woodland of oaks and junipers on the slopes.
He went ploughing through the brambles with catclaws picking after him vindictively, disputing his passage.