JACOB'S STAFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jacob's staff mean? 

• JACOB'S STAFF (noun)
  The noun JACOB'S STAFF has 1 sense:

1. desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers

  Familiarity information: JACOB'S STAFF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JACOB'S STAFF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

coachwhip; Fouquieria splendens; Jacob's staff; ocotillo; vine cactus

Hypernyms ("Jacob's staff" is a kind of...):

candlewood (any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light)

Holonyms ("Jacob's staff" is a member of...):

Fouquieria; genus Fouquieria (resinous succulent trees or shrubs of desert and semidesert regions of southwestern United States that are leafless most of the year)