noun
fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine
• Syn: ↑brittlebush, ↑brittle bush, ↑incienso
• Hypernyms: ↑wildflower, ↑wild flower
• Member Holonyms: ↑Encelia, ↑genus Encelia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.