Definition of Flame bush

1. Noun. Australian shrub having simple obovate leaves and brilliant scarlet flowers.

Exact synonyms: Coral Bush, Templetonia Retusa
Group relationships: Genus Templetonia, Templetonia
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flame Bush

flamboyances
flamboyancies
flamboyancy
flamboyant
flamboyant tree
flamboyantly
flamboyants
flamboyer
flamboyers
flame
flame-flower
flame-out
flame-retardant
flame arc
flame bait
flame bush (current term)
flame cell
flame durrajong
flame emission spectrophotometry
flame figure
flame fish
flame flower
flame gun
flame ionisation detector
flame ionization
flame nettle
flame out
flame pea
flame retardant
flame retardants

Literary usage of Flame bush

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. My Sudan Year by Ethel Stefana Drower (1912)
"and the wind, which was strongly against us, was as hot as a living flame. Bush fires roaring up into the sky did not lessen the heat. ..."

2. Bricks Without Straw: A Novel by Albion Winegar Tourgée (1880)
"... balls of the black- gum, some glowing bunches of the flame-bush, with their wealth of bursting red beries, and a full-laden branch of the black-haw. ..."

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