Definition of Smoke bush

1. Noun. Any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus.


2. Noun. Any of various shrubs of the genus Conospermum with panicles of mostly white woolly flowers.
Group relationships: Conospermum, Genus Conospermum
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoke Bush

smoiles
smoiling
smokability
smokable
smoke
smoke-cured
smoke-dried
smoke-filled
smoke-free
smoke-signal
smoke-signals
smoke alarm
smoke alarms
smoke and mirrors
smoke bomb
smoke bush (current term)
smoke detector
smoke detectors
smoke dope
smoke eater
smoke eaters
smoke explosion
smoke explosions
smoke grenade
smoke hole
smoke inhalation injury
smoke jumper
smoke jumpers
smoke like a chimney
smoke out

Literary usage of Smoke bush

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

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"11 Lit Digest 60: 190 Ja 30 '15 This gentleman wants the smoke out of your coal. Everybody's 33:255-6 Ag '15 smoke bush Venetian sumach. ..."

2. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"suckle, mulberry, white spruce, sour cherry, sumach, smoke-bush, locust, raspberry and the blackberry, elder, sassafras, various species of Spiraea, ..."

3. Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds by Mabel Osgood Wright (1917)
"Vesper Sparrow: Smoke-bush. Grasshopper Sparrow: Under small spruce. Song Sparrow: In many places, — hedge, bushes, ground. Chipping Sparrow : High in ..."

4. Landscape Gardening as Applied to Home Decoration by Samuel Taylor Maynard (1915)
"Purple Fringe or smoke bush (Rhus Cotinus), Fig. 130. —The beautiful mass of filaments produced about the flowers and fruit of this plant, often called ..."

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