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CHILEAN FIREBUSH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Chilean firebush mean?
• CHILEAN FIREBUSH (noun)
The noun CHILEAN FIREBUSH has 1 sense:
1. grown for outstanding display of brilliant usually scarlet-crimson flowers; Andes
Familiarity information: CHILEAN FIREBUSH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grown for outstanding display of brilliant usually scarlet-crimson flowers; Andes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Chilean firebush; Chilean flameflower; Embothrium coccineum
Hypernyms ("Chilean firebush" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("Chilean firebush" is a member of...):
Embothrium; genus Embothrium (small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters)
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