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DAISY BUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does daisy bush mean? 

DAISY BUSH (noun)
  The noun DAISY BUSH has 1 sense:

1. any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue raysplay

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


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DAISY BUSH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

daisy-bush; daisy bush; daisybush

Hypernyms ("daisy 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 "daisy bush"):

muskwood; Olearia argophylla (musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads)

New Zealand daisybush; Olearia haastii (bushy New Zealand shrub cultivated for its fragrant white flower heads)

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

genus Olearia; Olearia (large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers)


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