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CALIFORNIA BEAUTY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does California beauty mean?
• CALIFORNIA BEAUTY (noun)
The noun CALIFORNIA BEAUTY has 1 sense:
1. any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers
Familiarity information: CALIFORNIA BEAUTY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
California beauty; flannel bush; flannelbush
Hypernyms ("California beauty" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("California beauty" is a member of...):
Fremontia; Fremontodendron; genus Fremontia; genus Fremontodendron (flannelbush)
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