horsebrush

horsebrush

English

Horsebrush

Etymology

horse +‎ brush

Noun

horsebrush (countable and uncountable, plural horsebrushes)

1. Any of various flowering plants in the genus Tetradymia, native to mountainous western North America, especially the US.
2. A brush used for grooming horses.
   • 1889, Annual Report of the Military Department, State of Oregon (page 99)

     One hundred currycombs […] One hundred corn horsebrushes […]

Derived terms

• gray horsebrush, grey horsebrush
• hairy horsebrush
• fourpart horsebrush
• littleleaf horsebrush
• longspine horsebrush
• Nuttall's horsebrush
• shortspine horsebrush
• spineless horsebrush

Further reading

• Tetradymia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tetradymia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Tetradymia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• horsebrush at USDA Plants database
• horsebrush at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.