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English noun: brittle bush

1. brittle bush (plant) 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


Synonymsbrittlebush, Encelia farinosa, incienso


Broader (hypernym)wild flower, wildflower


Member meronymEncelia, genus Encelia









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