RABBIT BUSH

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Meaning:

Pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits; source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo

Synonyms:

Chrysothamnus nauseosus; rabbit brush; rabbit bush

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Nouns denoting plants

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

goldenbush (any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America)

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

Chrysothamnus; genus Chrysothamnus (genus of low branching shrubs of western North America)

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