Lexic.us

Definition 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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brittle Bush

Literary usage of Brittle bush

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

1. Campfires on Desert and Lava by William Temple Hornaday (1908)
"... Leaves Us—By Pack-Train Across the Lava—The Papago Tanks—Aqueducts Through the Lava—Our Little Oasis—The White brittle bush—Vegetable Life on the Lava. ..."

2. Air Quality Criteria for Oxides of Nitrogenby Dennis J. Kotchmar by Dennis J. Kotchmar (1996)
"With exposures of 16 weeks, there was no significant effect on linear growth or mass of shoot in brittle bush, burro weed, creosote bush, or desert willow; ..."

3. California Desert Trails by Joseph Smeaton Chase (1919)
"Incense bush, White brittle bush: Span., Yerba de incienso. One of the commonest of desert plants in the neighborhood of mountains, in form a compact ..."

4. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"... red brome (Bromus rubens), brittle bush (Encelia farinosa), and forbs, but less ground cover, bush muhly (Muhlenbergia ..."

5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"... we sighted two smaller rams, feeding on the dry "brittle- bush" as they strolled along one of the "runs" which the sheep stamp out in their travels. ..."

6. New Trails in Mexico: An Account of One Year's Exploration in North-western by Carl Lumholtz (1912)
"The sahuaro or the choya when dry burn almost equally as well, and the brittle bush may serve as fuel when the fire is already made. ..."

7. Farewell Sermons of Some of the Most Eminent of the Nonconformist Ministers by Edmund Calamy (1816)
"Note, that it is not compared to a strong sturdy oak, but to a weak brittle bush. God loves to bring his church into a low estate and weak condition ; as it ..."

8. Vegetation Monitoring: An Annotated Bibliography edited by Caryl L. Elzinga, Angela G. Evenden (1998)
"... palo verde, creosote bush, mesquite, and brittle bush. Three non-replicated permanent plots, of varying sizes, were established to monitor population ..."

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