silver-bush

Questions about silver-bush

What does silver-bush mean?

silver-bush means "silvery hairy European shrub with evergreen foliage and pale yellow flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in silver-bush?

silver-bush has 3 syllables and divides as sil-ver--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 silver-bush?

Close synonyms include Jupiter's beard, silverbush, Anthyllis barba-jovis, silverberry, silver berry. 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 silver-bush a common word?

silver-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.