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FLANNEL BUSH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flannel bush mean?
• FLANNEL BUSH (noun)
The noun FLANNEL BUSH has 1 sense:
1. any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers
Familiarity information: FLANNEL BUSH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
California beauty; flannel bush; flannelbush
Hypernyms ("flannel bush" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("flannel bush" is a member of...):
Fremontia; Fremontodendron; genus Fremontia; genus Fremontodendron (flannelbush)
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