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CHILEAN FIREBUSH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grown for outstanding display of brilliant usually scarlet-crimson flowers; Andes
Synonyms:
Chilean firebush; Chilean flameflower; Embothrium coccineum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Chilean firebush" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("Chilean firebush" is a member of...):
Embothrium; genus Embothrium (small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters)