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STINGAREE-BUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stingaree-bush mean? 

STINGAREE-BUSH (noun)
  The noun STINGAREE-BUSH has 1 sense:

1. spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of Californiaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


STINGAREE-BUSH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

chaparral pea; Pickeringia montana; stingaree-bush

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

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

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

genus Pickeringia; Pickeringia (one species: chaparral pea)


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