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Definition of Coral bush
1. Noun. Australian shrub having simple obovate leaves and brilliant scarlet flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Templetonia, Templetonia
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coral Bush
Literary usage of Coral bush
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"coral bush. Shrubs or rarely subshrubs, cult, in the greenhouse abroad and hardy
... coral bush. Tall glabrous or glaucous shrub: lys. broadly obovate to ..."
2. Waifs and strays of natural history by Margaret Gatty (1871)
"Here you begin to think how slowly a coral bush grows by comparison with most of
... The secret is that a coral bush is not a plant, but an animal formation ..."
3. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture \ by Peter Henderson (1910)
"... prominent place COB among domestic remedies, and was considered invaluable
for sore mouths in children. Coral Bead Plant. Abrus precatorius. coral bush. ..."
4. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1849)
"... from the singular forking of the branches ; and its English appellation,
Coral-bush, from the resemblance of the plant, when in a leafless state, ..."
5. Upper Egypt: Its People and Its Products : Descriptive Account of the by Karl Benjamin Klunzinger (1878)
"... although he has to lie on his belly—a trifling matter for the naturalist—and
hold his magnifying-glass at the point of his nose above a coral bush. ..."
6. Upper Egypt: Its People and Its Products by Carl Benjamin Klunzinger (1878)
"... although he has to lie on his belly—a trifling matter for the naturalist—and
hold bis magnifying-glass at the point of his nose above a coral bush. ..."
7. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Cult, at Santa Barbara, by Fran- ceschi.who says its curiously divided leaves
and scarlet Mowers are very ornamental, and adds that it is called "coral bush ..."
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