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SMOKE BUSH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does smoke bush mean?
• SMOKE BUSH (noun)
The noun SMOKE BUSH has 2 senses:
1. any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus
2. any of various shrubs of the genus Conospermum with panicles of mostly white woolly flowers
Familiarity information: SMOKE BUSH used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
smoke bush; smoke tree
Hypernyms ("smoke bush" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smoke bush"):
American smokewood; chittamwood; Cotinus americanus; Cotinus obovatus (shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke)
Cotinus coggygria; Venetian sumac; wig tree (Old World shrub having large plumes of yellowish feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke)
Holonyms ("smoke bush" is a member of...):
Cotinus; genus Cotinus (smoke trees)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of various shrubs of the genus Conospermum with panicles of mostly white woolly flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("smoke bush" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("smoke bush" is a member of...):
Conospermum; genus Conospermum (Australian shrubs (some trees) with flowers in dense spikes: smoke bush)
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