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Definitions

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An evergreen South American shrub *Streptosolen jamesonii) having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
  2. n. A densely branched Eurasian plant (Bassia scoparia) whose foliage turns purple-red in autumn; also called burning bush.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. evergreen South American shrub having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant
  2. n. densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn
  3. n. densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn
  4. n. evergreen South American shrub having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant

Examples

  • “He had a long pickle nose that snorted back bogies and low, dripping eyes under a firebush of eyebrow.”

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  • “No more than ten feet from where we stood, a ruby-throated hummingbird emerged and hovered in front of our native firebush plant, jockeying back and forth with the gusts of wind to get nectar from the swaying plant.”

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  • “The next morning, most of the firebush plant was gone, victim of the winds that continued to batter our state for hours.”

    Simon & Schuster: Count Your Blessings

  • “Left, right, and rearward the land reached endless, red-purple mahovina turf, widespaced clumps of firebush and stands of windblown plume, here and there a pool ablink.”

    A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows

  • “The Nora Grant ixora, firebush and jasmine are showing damage from last week and more is to come in the next week.”

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  • “The milkweed, firebush, potato vine and mimosa all look pretty burned.”

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  • “I had encouraged the landlord to plant some firebush plants after seeing an article in The”

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  • “The croton is a preferred victim, but it also attacks guava, strangler fig, Mysore fig, mango, firebush, wild coffee, marlberry and satinwood.”

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  • “Native trees planted include buttonwood, live oak, cabbage palm, wax myrtle, firebush, gumbo limbo and stopper trees.”

    University of Florida News

  • “In the back of the inn, a thick tangle of Turks cap, fiddlewood and firebush attract throngs of birds;”

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