HyperDic: rabbit_brush

English > 1 sense of the expression rabbit brush:
NOUNplantrabbit brush, rabbit bush, Chrysothamnus nauseosuspleasantly 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
English > rabbit brush: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningpleasantly 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.
Synonymsrabbit bush, Chrysothamnus nauseosus
Member ofChrysothamnus, genus Chrysothamnusgenus of low branching shrubs of western North America
BroadergoldenbushAny of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus

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