Lexic.us

Definition of Rabbit bush

1. Noun. Pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits; source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rabbit Bush

Literary usage of Rabbit bush

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

1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1915)
"rabbit bush (Chrysothamnus spp.) and pingue (Hymenoxys floribunda) are abundant, growing usually in pure stands ... Snakeweed and rabbit bush are worthless, ..."

2. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah by Howard Stansbury (1852)
"The only vegetation, to-day, has been a little dwarf artemisia, grease-bush, rabbit- bush, salt-grass in the narrow strips of bottom-land, and an occasional ..."

3. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah by Howard Stansbury (1852)
"The only vegetation, to-day, has been a little dwarf artemisia, grease-bush, rabbit- bush, salt-grass in the narrow strips of bottom-land, and an occasional ..."

4. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah by Howard Stansbury (1852)
"The only vegetation, to-day, has been a little dwarf artemisia, grease-bush, rabbit- bush, salt-grass in the narrow strips of bottom-land, and an occasional ..."

5. The Nature and Properties of Soils: A College Text of Edaphology by Thomas Lyttleton Lyon, Harry Oliver Buckman (1922)
"... Salt-grass Bushy samphire Salt-bush Spike-weed Cressa rabbit bush Sage-brush, which is so often associated in popular literature with alkali, ..."

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