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Any of certain Australian shrubs or trees of the family Myrtaceae that are widely cultivated in warm regions especially for their spikes of brightly colored flowers

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Usage examples (34)
  • The Kei bottlebrush is ideally suited for the small city garden.
  • The path curved off under the thick branches of a bottlebrush tree.
  • A scrubby growth of bottlebrush broke up the silhouette of his head.
  • Abuela Felicia, her head resting against the roots of a bottlebrush tree.
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