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FLANNEL BUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flannel bush mean? 

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

1. any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FLANNEL BUSH (noun)


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 ("flannel bush" is a kind of...):

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

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

Fremontia; Fremontodendron; genus Fremontia; genus Fremontodendron (flannelbush)


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