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    BRITTLE BUSH

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicineplay

    Synonyms:

    brittle bush; brittlebush; Encelia farinosa; incienso

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

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

    Encelia; genus Encelia (genus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico: brittlebush)

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