poison bush

Questions about poison bush

What does poison bush mean?

poison bush means "any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pods". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for poison bush?

Close synonyms include poison pea, gastrolobium, darling pea. 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 poison bush a common word?

poison 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.