daisybush

daisybush
noun
any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays
Syn: ↑daisy-bush, ↑daisy bush
Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush
Member Holonyms: ↑Olearia, ↑genus Olearia

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
: any of certain frost-tender shrubs of the Australasian composite genus Olearia with leathery evergreen leaves and flower heads resembling daisies; especially : a bushy half-hardy New Zealand shrub (O. haastii) sometimes cultivated for its fragrant white flower heads

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