SILVER-BUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silver-bush mean? 

• SILVER-BUSH (noun)
  The noun SILVER-BUSH has 2 senses:

1. silvery hairy European shrub with evergreen foliage and pale yellow flowers

2. deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits

  Familiarity information: SILVER-BUSH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILVER-BUSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Silvery hairy European shrub with evergreen foliage and pale yellow flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Anthyllis barba-jovis; Jupiter's beard; silver-bush; silverbush

Hypernyms ("silver-bush" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("silver-bush" is a member of...):

Anthyllis; genus Anthyllis (genus of Mediterranean herbs and shrubs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Elaeagnus commutata; silver-bush; silver berry; silverberry; silverbush

Hypernyms ("silver-bush" is a kind of...):

oleaster (any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits)