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poison bush
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun poison bush has 2 senses
- poison bush(n = noun.plant) gastrolobium, poison pea - any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pods; Array is a member of genus gastrolobium
- poison bush(n = noun.plant) darling pea - either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep; Array is a member of genus swainsona, swainsona
is a kind of bush, shrub
has particulars: smooth darling pea, swainsona galegifolia, hairy darling pea, swainsona grandiflora, swainsona greyana
is a kind of subshrub, suffrutex
CIDE DICTIONARY
poison bush,
Any fabaceous shrub of the genus Gastrolobium , the herbage of which is poisonous to stock; also, any species of several related genera, as Oxylobium , Gompholobium , etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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