sagebrush
灌木丛,沙棘,沙砾,沙草
Definitions
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- : any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
Examples
The willow and sagebrush in the valley helped protect them from the wind and snow of winter blizzards and the “Big River,” or “Boa Ogoi” as the Shoshones called it, had an abundance of fish, plus the area was rich with wild game.
As participants decided where to stack rocks to spread water across the dusty sagebrush flat, Zeedyk encouraged them to “read the landscape” and “think like water.”
Gray clumps of sagebrush stood forth like little islands in the sea of grass.
She liked to turn off the road and gallop across the trackless ways, sometimes frightening rabbits and coyotes from the sagebrush.
The wide fields were covered with sagebrush or bunchgrass and there were no railroads.
They are found in abundance on the dry sagebrush covered plains about the Rocky Mountains and to the westward.
Then a distant bunch of sagebrush transformed itself into another moving form, and two coyotes trotted into the scene.