GOLDENBUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does goldenbush mean? 

• GOLDENBUSH (noun)
  The noun GOLDENBUSH has 2 senses:

1. a plant of the genus Haplopappus

2. any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America

  Familiarity information: GOLDENBUSH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOLDENBUSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant of the genus Haplopappus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("goldenbush" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "goldenbush"):

camphor daisy; Haplopappus phyllocephalus (annual of southern United States and Mexico having bristly leaves and pale yellow flowers)

Haplopappus spinulosus; yellow spiny daisy (slender perennial of western North America having weakly bristly leaves and yellow flower heads)

Holonyms ("goldenbush" is a member of...):

genus Haplopappus; Haplopappus (genus of North and South American perennial herbs or shrubs with yellow flowers; in some classifications include species placed in other genera especially Hazardia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("goldenbush" 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 "goldenbush"):

Chrysothamnus nauseosus; rabbit brush; rabbit bush (pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits; source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo)

Holonyms ("goldenbush" is a member of...):

Chrysothamnus; genus Chrysothamnus (genus of low branching shrubs of western North America)