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MATCHBUSH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does matchbush mean?
• MATCHBUSH (noun)
The noun MATCHBUSH has 1 sense:
1. any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches
Familiarity information: MATCHBUSH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
matchbush; matchweed
Hypernyms ("matchbush" is a kind of...):
subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "matchbush"):
Gutierrezia microcephala; little-head snakeweed (similar to Gutierrezia sarothrae but with flower heads having fewer rays and disk flowers)
broom snakeroot; broom snakeweed; Gutierrezia sarothrae; rabbit-weed; rabbitweed; snakeweed; turpentine weed (low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads)
broom-weed; broomweed; Gutierrezia texana (annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers)
Holonyms ("matchbush" is a member of...):
genus Gutierrezia; Gutierrezia (sticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South America)
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