DAISY-BUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does daisy-bush mean? 

• DAISY-BUSH (noun)
  The noun DAISY-BUSH has 1 sense:

1. any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays

  Familiarity information: DAISY-BUSH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAISY-BUSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

daisy-bush; daisy bush; daisybush

Hypernyms ("daisy-bush" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "daisy-bush"):

muskwood; Olearia argophylla (musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads)

New Zealand daisybush; Olearia haastii (bushy New Zealand shrub cultivated for its fragrant white flower heads)

Holonyms ("daisy-bush" is a member of...):

genus Olearia; Olearia (large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers)