daisy-bush

Questions about daisy-bush

What does daisy-bush mean?

daisy-bush means "any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays".

How many syllables are in daisy-bush?

daisy-bush has 3 syllables and divides as dai-sy--bush under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for daisy-bush?

Close synonyms include daisybush, daisy bush. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is daisy-bush a common word?

daisy-bush is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.