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FOUQUIERIA SPLENDENS
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I. (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
Synonyms:
coachwhip; Fouquieria splendens; Jacob's staff; ocotillo; vine cactus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Fouquieria splendens" is a kind of...):
candlewood (any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light)
Holonyms ("Fouquieria splendens" 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)
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