COACHWHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coachwhip mean? 

• COACHWHIP (noun)
  The noun COACHWHIP has 2 senses:

1. desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers

2. a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip

  Familiarity information: COACHWHIP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COACHWHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

coachwhip; Fouquieria splendens; Jacob's staff; ocotillo; vine cactus

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

candlewood (any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light)

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

Fouquieria; genus Fouquieria (resinous succulent trees or shrubs of desert and semidesert regions of southwestern United States that are leafless most of the year)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

coachwhip; coachwhip snake; Masticophis flagellum

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

whip-snake; whip snake; whipsnake (any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails)