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JEW BUSH

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Jew bush mean?

• JEW BUSH (noun)
The noun JEW BUSH has 1 sense:

1. low tropical American shrub having powerful emetic properties

Familiarity information: JEW BUSH used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• JEW BUSH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Low tropical American shrub having powerful emetic properties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Jew bush; Jew-bush; Jewbush; Pedilanthus tithymaloides; redbird cactus; redbird flower

Hypernyms ("Jew bush" is a kind of...):

slipper plant; slipper spurge (any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot-shaped bracts)

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