fire bush

Questions about fire bush

What does fire bush mean?

fire bush means "evergreen South American shrub having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for fire bush?

Close synonyms include marmalade bush, fire-bush, Streptosolen jamesonii, summer cypress, burning 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 fire bush a common word?

fire bush is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.