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RABBIT BUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rabbit bush mean? 

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

1. pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits; source of a yellow dye used by the Navajoplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


RABBIT BUSH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits; source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chrysothamnus nauseosus; rabbit brush; rabbit bush

Hypernyms ("rabbit bush" is a kind of...):

goldenbush (any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America)

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

Chrysothamnus; genus Chrysothamnus (genus of low branching shrubs of western North America)


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