fire bush

fire bush
noun
1. evergreen South American shrub having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant
Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush
Member Holonyms: ↑Streptosolen, ↑genus Streptosolen
2. densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn
Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush
Member Holonyms: ↑Bassia, ↑genus Bassia, ↑Kochia, ↑genus Kochia

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noun
2. : a low West Indian shrub (Croton lucidus) having small flowers in terminal racemes

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