horsebrush
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]horsebrush (countable and uncountable, plural horsebrushes)
- Any of various flowering plants in the genus Tetradymia, native to mountainous western North America, especially the US.
- A brush used for grooming horses.
- 1889, Annual Report of the Military Department, State of Oregon, page 99:
- One hundred currycombs […] One hundred corn horsebrushes […]
Derived terms
[edit]- gray horsebrush, grey horsebrush
- hairy horsebrush
- fourpart horsebrush
- littleleaf horsebrush
- longspine horsebrush
- Nuttall's horsebrush
- shortspine horsebrush
- spineless horsebrush
Further reading
[edit]Tetradymia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Tetradymia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Tetradymia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- horsebrush at USDA Plants database
- horsebrush at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.