Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several plants associated in the western United States with the feeding of deer: In the mountains of California, Lotus glaber, also called
deer-weed and wild broom. - noun In Oregon, the shrub Kunzia tridentata.
- noun In Colorado, various shrubby composites of the genera Chrysothamnus and Isocoma.
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Examples
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In the more open places grew buck-brush and the service-berry, Oregon grape with its holly-shaped leaves, blue lupines, Indian paint-brush and great mountain ferns.
Virginia of Elk Creek Valley Mary Ellen Chase 1930
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I saw all the different shrubs -- quaking-asp and buck-brush and Oregon grape and service-berry and hawthorn and wild currant -- and I thought to myself that this would be some garden in September.
Virginia of Elk Creek Valley Mary Ellen Chase 1930
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We hailed MacRae when he reached the foot of the hill, and he came crashing through sage and buck-brush and threw himself, panting, on the ground.
Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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We squatted in the long grass and buck-brush, listening, and a few seconds later heard a horse snort distinctly.
Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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Then, with pain-hurried, jerky movements, he pulled off the saddle, glanced around him, and flung it behind a buck-brush.
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But instead of seeing a splatter of blood and flesh upon the earth by the tree stump, we saw the soldier rise from the buck-brush where he had been ducking, and light a cigarette.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me William Allen White 1906
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Cottonwood-trees began to appear along the brook, and blossoming buck-brush in the corners of wall.
The Rainbow Trail Zane Grey 1905
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Then, with pain-hurried, jerky movements, he pulled off the saddle, glanced around him, and flung it behind a buck-brush.
The Ranch at the Wolverine B. M. Bower 1905
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I could split a hair with it as far, say, as from that clump of buck-brush over to your barn.
Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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Its goal appeared to be the bunk house fifty yards distant; but its course was devious, laid clearly with a view to securing such incidental brief shelter as would be afforded by the corral wall, by a meagre clump of buck-brush, by a wagon, by a stack of hay.
Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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