catclaw


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catclaw

(ˈkætˌklɔː)
n
(Plants) a variety of shrub with small spines and white or yellow flowers
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Noun1.catclaw - erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida
genus Pithecellobium, genus Pithecolobium, Pithecellobium, Pithecolobium - thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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The Catclaw is a device which deploys a metal spike when driven over, puncturing the tyres of any motorist who tries to mount the kerb.
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Here also the heaviest growth of mesquites occurs." About 5 km east, on the north side of the valley, Huey noted that conditions were "vastly different" and "Creosote [Larrea tridentata] proved to be the most common shrub with Squaw Tea [Ephedra sp.] and Catclaw [Se nega lia greggii] as close seconds." Mesquites (Prosopis glandulosa) were scattered and not abundant.
They dropped like the stones I'd throw in Catclaw Creek or fluttered spastically and panickedly up whereupon I took more tenacious aim-- much more difficult now because they moved-- not me, frozen as if in a camera's flash-- troubling the tyranny of the ordinary as if a wave of meaning or unmeaning went rippling like heat through the yard.
Shrubs were few and include catclaw mimosa (Mimosa biuncifera), agarito (Berberis trifoliolata), and fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica).
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biuncifera (catclaw, gatuno or "una de gato") since it is a shrub that is widely distributed in the semi-arid regions of Mexico (McVaugh, 1987).
ex A.Gray) S.Wats.) seeds but not catclaw acacia (Acacia greggii A.