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FALSE AZALEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does false azalea mean?
• FALSE AZALEA (noun)
The noun FALSE AZALEA has 1 sense:
1. straggling shrub of northwestern North America having foliage with a bluish tinge and umbels of small bell-shaped flowers
Familiarity information: FALSE AZALEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Straggling shrub of northwestern North America having foliage with a bluish tinge and umbels of small bell-shaped flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
false azalea; fool's huckleberry; Menziesia ferruginea
Hypernyms ("false azalea" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("false azalea" is a member of...):
genus Menziesia; Menziesia (deciduous shrubs of North America and eastern Asia)
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