paloverde
- n a thorny shrub of the genus Cercidium that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico; has smooth light green bark and racemes of yellow flowers and small leaves
- Next morning the rescue party found three women alive under a paloverde tree.
- At dusk the columns draw close to the shelter of a mountainside and scraggly clumps of paloverde and green-silver, dusty-needled tamarisk trees.