POISON BUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poison bush mean? 

• POISON BUSH (noun)
  The noun POISON BUSH has 2 senses:

1. any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pods

2. either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep

  Familiarity information: POISON BUSH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POISON BUSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

gastrolobium; poison bush; poison pea

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

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

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

genus Gastrolobium (genus of Australian evergreen shrubs poisonous to livestock: poison bush)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

darling pea; poison bush

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

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

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

smooth darling pea; Swainsona galegifolia (erect or trailing perennial of eastern Australia having axillary racemes of blue to purple or red flowers)

hairy darling pea; Swainsona grandiflora; Swainsona greyana (shrubby perennial of southern Australia having downy or woolly stems and undersides of leaves and racemes of red to pink flowers)

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

genus Swainsona; Swainsona (a genus of Australian herbs and subshrubs: darling peas)