different between seashore vs saltbush

English

Etymology

sea +? shore

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s??shô, IPA^(key): /?si????/
• (General American) enPR: s??shôr, IPA^(key): /?si????/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: s??sh?r, IPA^(key): /?si??o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?si??o?/

Noun

seashore (plural seashores)

1. The coastal land bordering a sea or an ocean.
2. The foreshore, the strip of land between low water and high water.

Synonyms

• (land bordering the sea): seacoast, sea marge
• (strip between high and low water marks): foreshore, intertidal zone, littoral

Hypernyms

• (land bordering the sea): shore, coast, strand

Translations

Anagrams

• sea horse, seahorse

English

Etymology

From salt +? bush.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?ltb??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??lt?b??/

Noun

saltbush (countable and uncountable, plural saltbushes)

1. Any of the genus Atriplex of plants, especially Atriplex hortensis or Atriplex patula, found in dry habitats, that have edible leaves resembling spinach, including many desert and seashore plants and halophytes.
   • 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador 2014, p. 4:

     The sand is cold beneath our bare feet and the dunes damp and spicy with marram grass and saltbush.

   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 186:

     The blasting music, not reduced one notch, continues to flow beautifully into the static of the surrounding saltbush, conveying the aura of the religiously apiritual in all worlds.

Synonyms

• orach

Translations