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DAISY-BUSH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays
Synonyms:
daisy-bush; daisy bush; daisybush
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("daisy-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 "daisy-bush"):
muskwood; Olearia argophylla (musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads)
New Zealand daisybush; Olearia haastii (bushy New Zealand shrub cultivated for its fragrant white flower heads)
Holonyms ("daisy-bush" is a member of...):
genus Olearia; Olearia (large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers)
