Consumption Weed (Noun)
Meaning
A shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Plants with plumose seeds like consumption weed have a selective advantage in environments where wind dispersal is beneficial for reproduction.
- Consumption weed helps keep the soil intact through its extensive root system in coastal salt marshes.
- The unique tufted seeds of consumption weed facilitate dislodgement during strong winds and helps propagate it further.
- Many species of salt marshes such as consumption weed require specialized roots to tolerate an oxygen-poor environment.
- In unique symbiotic relationships consumption weed may get benefits from nutrient fixes and pollution protection from surrounding organisms.