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FETTER BUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fetter bush mean? 

FETTER BUSH (noun)
  The noun FETTER BUSH has 1 sense:

1. showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbelplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FETTER BUSH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

fetter bush; fetterbush; Lyonia lucida; shiny lyonia

Hypernyms ("fetter bush" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("fetter bush" is a member of...):

genus Lyonia; Lyonia (evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya)


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