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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 flowersplay

  Familiarity information: FALSE AZALEA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FALSE AZALEA (noun)


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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