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SMOKE BUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smoke bush mean? 

SMOKE BUSH (noun)
  The noun SMOKE BUSH has 2 senses:

1. any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinusplay

2. any of various shrubs of the genus Conospermum with panicles of mostly white woolly flowersplay

  Familiarity information: SMOKE BUSH used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SMOKE BUSH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

smoke bush; smoke tree

Hypernyms ("smoke 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 "smoke bush"):

American smokewood; chittamwood; Cotinus americanus; Cotinus obovatus (shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke)

Cotinus coggygria; Venetian sumac; wig tree (Old World shrub having large plumes of yellowish feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke)

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

Cotinus; genus Cotinus (smoke trees)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various shrubs of the genus Conospermum with panicles of mostly white woolly flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

Conospermum; genus Conospermum (Australian shrubs (some trees) with flowers in dense spikes: smoke bush)


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