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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A shrub native to deserts in the southwestern US and northern Mexico, Encelia farinosa.
2. 2
   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 wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

brittle bushencelia farinosaincienso

Etymology

From brittle + bush, from the frangibility of its stems.

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