Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various shrubs of the genus Encelia of the composite family, especially E. farinosa, native to northern Mexico and the southwest United States and having grayish foliage and showy yellow flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun fragrant rounded shrub of SW US 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.
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- noun The
desert shrub Encelia farinosa.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fragrant 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
- noun fragrant 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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It takes a couple of weeks for dormant shrubs such as brittlebush (Encelia farinosa) and creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) to produce new roots and leaves and resume full metabolic activity after a soaking rain.
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As David Myers scans the rocky slopes of this desert canyon, looking vainly past clumps of brittlebush for bighorn sheep, he imagines an enemy advancing across the crags.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » You Knew This Was Coming, Didn’t You? 2009
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Vegetation is a sparse, but diverse, shrub cover that includes creosote bush, white brittlebush, white bursage, and occasional Sonoran desert elements, such as ocotillo.
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During the dry season the stems of brittlebush and bursage are so dehydrated that they can be used as kindling wood, yet they are alive.
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A couple of exceptions are brittlebush when it occurs in pure stands, and extensive woodlands of foothill palo verde (Cercidium microphyllum).
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We walk by flora that I have only seen in books—brittlebush and cheeseweed, filaree, jojoba.
VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005
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We walk by flora that I have only seen in books – brittlebush and cheeseweed, filaree, jojoba.
Vanishing Acts Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2005
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We walk by flora that I have only seen in books—brittlebush and cheeseweed, filaree, jojoba.
VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005
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We walk by flora that I have only seen in books—brittlebush and cheeseweed, filaree, jojoba.
VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005
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The brittlebush, one of the most prolific desert bloomers, is ablaze with its yellow flowers now.
Fore, right! Priscilla Lister 2010
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