Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rosaceous genus of shrubs or small trees of the western United States and northern Mexico.
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Between the trees the ground is sparsely covered by grama, other grasses, herbs, and various shrubs, such as big sagebrush and alderleaf cercocarpus.
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Between the trees the ground is sparsely covered by grama, others grasses, herbs, and various shrubs, such as big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) and alderleaf cercocarpus (Cercocarpus montanus).
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The cercocarpus almost rivals the lilac in its display of white and blue, and the dark, forbidding adenostoma now showers forth dense panicles of little white flowers.
Our Italy Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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