cotton bush

British  

noun

1. any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock

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Example Sentences

"I went to look at that 'ere guinea hen what was sittin' on eleven eggs under that sort o' cotton bush in the 'orse paddock."

From Tom Gerrard by Becke, Louis

The cotton bush has large yellow flowers, and when the fruit, which is as large as a walnut, opens, the inside shows a quantity of seeds closely covered with soft woolly hairs.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders

In India and Arabia the cotton bush has been cultivated for more than 2000 years, and Alexander the Great introduced it into Greece.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders

By-and-by the cotton seeds grew up into a cotton bush, with big brown pods upon it.

From The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India by Crooke, William