BRITTLEBUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brittlebush mean? 

• BRITTLEBUSH (noun)
  The noun BRITTLEBUSH has 1 sense:

1. fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine

  Familiarity information: BRITTLEBUSH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRITTLEBUSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

brittle bush; brittlebush; Encelia farinosa; incienso

Hypernyms ("brittlebush" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("brittlebush" is a member of...):

Encelia; genus Encelia (genus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico: brittlebush)