BUSH WILLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bush willow mean? 

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

1. small South African tree having creamy yellow fragrant flowers usually growing on stream banks

2. small deciduous tree of the Transvaal having spikes of yellow flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUSH WILLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small South African tree having creamy yellow fragrant flowers usually growing on stream banks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bush willow; Combretum erythrophyllum

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

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

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

genus Combretum (type genus of the Combretaceae: tropical and subtropical small shrubs and trees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small deciduous tree of the Transvaal having spikes of yellow flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bush willow; Combretum appiculatum

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

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

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

genus Combretum (type genus of the Combretaceae: tropical and subtropical small shrubs and trees)

 Context examples 

The tromethamine salt form of prodrug fosbretabulin, a water-soluble phosphate derivative of a stilbenoid phenol derived from the African bush willow (Combretum caffrum) with antineoplastic activities.

(Fosbretabulin Tromethamine, NCI Thesaurus)

The disodium salt of a water-soluble phosphate derivative of a natural stilbenoid phenol derived from the African bush willow (Combretum caffrum) with potential vascular disrupting and antineoplastic activities.

(Fosbretabulin Disodium, NCI Thesaurus)

A water-soluble prodrug derived from the African bush willow (Combretum caffrum) with antineoplastic activity.

(Fosbretabulin, NCI Thesaurus)

Combretastatin A4 phosphate comes from the African bush willow.

(combretastatin A4 phosphate, NCI Dictionary)

A stilbenoid phenol, originally isolated from the bark of the African bush willow tree Combretum caffrum, with vascular disrupting and antineoplastic activities.

(Combretastatin, NCI Thesaurus)