HyperDic: brittle_bush

English > 1 sense of the expression brittle bush:
NOUNplantbrittle bush, brittlebush, incienso, Encelia farinosafragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers
English > brittle bush: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningfragrant 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 medicine.
Synonymsbrittlebush, incienso, Encelia farinosa
Member ofEncelia, genus Enceliagenus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico
Broaderwildflower, wild flowerwild or uncultivated flowering plant
Spanishincienso

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