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STINGAREE-BUSH
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California
Synonyms:
chaparral pea; Pickeringia montana; stingaree-bush
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("stingaree-bush" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("stingaree-bush" is a member of...):
genus Pickeringia; Pickeringia (one species: chaparral pea)