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JACOB'S STAFF
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Jacob's staff mean?
• JACOB'S STAFF (noun)
The noun JACOB'S STAFF has 1 sense:
1. desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers
Familiarity information: JACOB'S STAFF used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
coachwhip; Fouquieria splendens; Jacob's staff; ocotillo; vine cactus
Hypernyms ("Jacob's staff" is a kind of...):
candlewood (any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light)
Holonyms ("Jacob's staff" is a member of...):
Fouquieria; genus Fouquieria (resinous succulent trees or shrubs of desert and semidesert regions of southwestern United States that are leafless most of the year)
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