WordNet
rabbit bush
n. pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits; source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo [syn: rabbit brush, Chrysothamnus nauseosus]
Usage examples of "rabbit bush".
There was white sage and rabbit bush, and in the coves of the mountains, bunch-grass.
Here and there on top of the mesa were tufts of desert five-spot, a rose-purple flower with flecks of bright red on the petals, and scattered clumps of rabbit bush.