Meanings
nounshadscale (countable and uncountable, plural shadscales)
plural shadscales
- countableuncountableAn evergreen shrub, Atriplex confertifolia.
At areas of slightly higher elevations, soils were less salty and supported a cold desert chenopod shrub community consisting predominately of shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia) and gray molly (Kochia americana).
2015 October 15, “Evaluation of Scat Deposition Transects versus Radio Telemetry for Developing a Species Distribution Model for a Rare Desert Carnivore, the Kit Fox”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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