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Noun: poverty grass
  1. Small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America
    - beach heather, Hudsonia tomentosa

Derived forms: poverty grasses

Type of: subshrub, suffrutex

Part of: genus Hudsonia, Hudsonia

Encyclopedia: Poverty grass