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rabbit bush

DEFINITIONS OF: rabbit bush

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n pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits; source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo

Synonyms:
Chrysothamnus nauseosus, rabbit brush
Type of:
goldenbush
any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America
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