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CALIFORNIA BEAUTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does California beauty mean? 

CALIFORNIA BEAUTY (noun)
  The noun CALIFORNIA BEAUTY has 1 sense:

1. any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowersplay

  Familiarity information: CALIFORNIA BEAUTY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CALIFORNIA BEAUTY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

California beauty; flannel bush; flannelbush

Hypernyms ("California beauty" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("California beauty" is a member of...):

Fremontia; Fremontodendron; genus Fremontia; genus Fremontodendron (flannelbush)


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