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BRITTLEBUSH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine
Synonyms:
brittle bush; brittlebush; Encelia farinosa; incienso
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("brittlebush" is a kind of...):
wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)
Holonyms ("brittlebush" is a member of...):
Encelia; genus Encelia (genus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico: brittlebush)
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