Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various Australian shrubs or trees of the genus Callistemon, having dense cylindrical spikes of flowers with long stamens that resemble a brush used to clean bottles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
trees orshrubs of themyrtle family, especially of thegenera Callistemon and Melaleuca, native toAustralia and adjacent areas, havingspikes offlowers with numerousconspicuous stamens . - noun A
cylindrical brush on athin shaft that is used toclean bottles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles
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Examples
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The bottlebrush trees and snowy felt and flakes really look sweet.
Christmas Nativity 2008 regina doman 2009
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If you can insert a small bottlebrush to get out any dust or silt that's on the concrete, this will really help ensure patching success.
How to fix holes in your home's concrete foundation Tim Carter 2011
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I used them in the Nativity with old lace, bottlebrush trees, pearls, and vintage cardboard houses, together with topiaries made of dried hydrangeas and Spanish moss.
Archive 2009-01-01 regina doman 2009
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I used them in the Nativity with old lace, bottlebrush trees, pearls, and vintage cardboard houses, together with topiaries made of dried hydrangeas and Spanish moss.
Christmas Nativity 2008 regina doman 2009
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The sky is a photogenic blue with bottlebrush marks of white—an optimistic backdrop for a city where the streetscape exudes a gray and downcast feel that, by comparison, would make a Hopper painting seem cheerful.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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The sky is a photogenic blue with bottlebrush marks of white—an optimistic backdrop for a city where the streetscape exudes a gray and downcast feel that, by comparison, would make a Hopper painting seem cheerful.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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He went back through the kitchen and through the wet bar area and looked out at the pool and at the shadows the potted orchid and bottlebrush trees made on the flagstones.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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“Shut up, Monroe,” Herman said, staring at a silhouette that disconnected itself from the bottlebrush tree and now stood framed against the moonlight that shimmered like a white flame on the bayou.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He went back through the kitchen and through the wet bar area and looked out at the pool and at the shadows the potted orchid and bottlebrush trees made on the flagstones.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He stared hard at a barrel-potted bottlebrush tree that in the shadows seemed fatter and denser than it should have been.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
skipvia commented on the word bottlebrush
Seedhead resembles a bottle brush. See Prairie Grasses
February 12, 2008