brittle bush

Other forms: brittle bushes

Definitions of brittle bush
  1. noun
    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
    synonyms: Encelia farinosa, brittlebush, incienso
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    type of:
    wild flower, wildflower
    wild or uncultivated flowering plant
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