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RABBIT BUSH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rabbit bush mean?
• RABBIT BUSH (noun)
The noun RABBIT BUSH has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: RABBIT BUSH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Chrysothamnus nauseosus; rabbit brush; rabbit bush
Hypernyms ("rabbit bush" is a kind of...):
goldenbush (any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America)
Holonyms ("rabbit bush" is a member of...):
Chrysothamnus; genus Chrysothamnus (genus of low branching shrubs of western North America)
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