redbrush

1. 1.

   common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers

   Synonymsred osierred osier dogwoodred dogwoodAmerican dogwoodCornus stolonifera

   Broaderdogwood

Other forms of redbrush

plural

redbrushes·

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 redbrush

What does redbrush mean?

redbrush means "common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers".

How many syllables are in redbrush?

redbrush has 2 syllables: red-brush. The stress falls on "red".

What is another word for redbrush?

Close synonyms include red osier, red osier dogwood, red dogwood, American dogwood, Cornus stolonifera. 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 redbrush a common word?

redbrush 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.