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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; Andesplay

  Familiarity information: CHILEAN FIREBUSH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHILEAN FIREBUSH (noun)


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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