flannelbush

1. 1.

   any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers

   Synonymsflannel bushCalifornia beauty

   Broadershrub

   Part ofFremontodendron

Other forms of flannelbush

plural

flannelbushes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flannelbush

What does flannelbush mean?

flannelbush means "any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers".

How many syllables are in flannelbush?

flannelbush has 3 syllables: flan-nel-bush. The stress falls on "flan".

What is another word for flannelbush?

Close synonyms include flannel bush, California beauty. 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 flannelbush a common word?

flannelbush 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.