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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and Northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers.

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  • noun any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers
  • noun any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers

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Examples

  • Other plants, like the tall flannelbush on the edge and the patch of woolly sunflower ( "Oregon sunshine") were waiting their turn.

    SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

  • A fantastic hike today in the Mojave Desert-Transverse Ranges ecotone, with piñon/juniper, joshua tree, manzanita and oak, flannelbush, scrub jays and juncos, Ambassadors from the Owl Nation, and my favorite hiking partner.

    Coyote Crossing 2010

  • A fantastic hike today in the Mojave Desert-Transverse Ranges ecotone, with piñon/juniper, joshua tree, manzanita and oak, flannelbush, scrub jays and juncos, Ambassadors from the Owl Nation, and my favorite hiking partner.

    Coyote Crossing 2010

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