MIMOSA BUSH

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Meaning:

Tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery

Synonyms:

Acacia farnesiana; cassie; flame tree; huisache; mimosa bush; scented wattle; sweet acacia; sweet wattle

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Nouns denoting plants

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

acacia (any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia)

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

genus Acacia (large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa)

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