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BUSH HIBISCUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bush hibiscus mean? 

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

1. southern and western Australian shrub with unlobed or shallowly lobed toothed leaves and purple flowers; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscusplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BUSH HIBISCUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Southern and western Australian shrub with unlobed or shallowly lobed toothed leaves and purple flowers; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bush hibiscus; Hibiscus farragei; Radyera farragei

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

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

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

genus Radyera; Radyera (very small genus of shrubs of southern hemisphere: bush hibiscus)


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