rabbit bush

rabbit bush
noun
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
Hypernyms: ↑goldenbush
Member Holonyms: ↑Chrysothamnus, ↑genus Chrysothamnus

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noun

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rabbit brush or rabbit bush,
a desert plant of the aster family, common in western North America.

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