GUAYULE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guayule mean? 

• GUAYULE (noun)
  The noun GUAYULE has 1 sense:

1. much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber

  Familiarity information: GUAYULE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUAYULE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

guayule; Parthenium argentatum

Hypernyms ("guayule" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Holonyms ("guayule" is a member of...):

genus Parthenium; Parthenium (small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers)