Smoke tree Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus
smoke bush.
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noun greyish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light-colored honey of excellent flavor
Dalea spinosa.
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(Bot.) , a shrub (Rhus Cotinus ) in which the flowers are mostly abortive and the panicles transformed into tangles of plumose pedicels looking like wreaths of smoke.
