burning bush

English

Etymology

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Noun

burning bush (plural burning bushes)

1. (Judaism, Christianity) A biblical object described in Exodus 3:1-22, used by Yahweh to communicate with Moses.
2. Any plant of several species of Euonymus:
   1. A winged spindle or winged euonymus (), with vivid magenta Fall foliage, native to eastern Asia common as an ornamental and invasive in North America.
   2. A western burning bush (), native to western North America
   3. An eastern burning bush (), an ornamental shrub native to the midwestern US that bears a red berry.
3. A perennial herb () which gives off so much essential oil that it can sometimes be lit and will burn briefly without harming the plant.
4. , a plant native to Africa
5. (syn. ), a large annual herb in the family Chenopodiaceae, native to Eurasia, introduced to many parts of North America.

Synonyms

• (Euonymus atropurpureus): wahoo
• (Dictamnus albus): fraxinella, dittany, gas plant

Translations

biblical object

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燃燒的荊棘／燃烧的荆棘 (ránshāo de jīngjí), 燃烧的荆棘 (ránshāo de jīngjí)

• Czech: hořící keř, ohnivý keř
• Danish: brændende tornebusk
• Dutch: brandende braamstruik m, brandende doornstruik m
• Finnish: palava pensas
• French: buisson ardent (fr) m
• German: brennender Dornbusch m
• Hebrew: הַסְּנֶה הַבּוֹעֵר
• Indonesian: semak duri berapi
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• Italian: roveto ardente m
• Latin: rubus ardens
• Polish: krzew gorejący m
• Portuguese: sarça ardente f
• Russian: неопали́мая купина́ (ru) f (neopalímaja kupiná)
• Spanish: zarza ardiente f
• Tamil: எரியும் முட்செடி (eriyum muṭceṭi)
• Ukrainian: неопалима купина f (neopalyma kupyna)
• Urdu: جلتی جھاڑی

ornamental shrub

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紫衛矛／紫卫矛, 紫卫矛 (zǐwèimáo), 美衛矛／美卫矛, 美卫矛 (měiwèimáo)

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• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: amerikansorvarinpensas

Dictamnus albus — see gas plant

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “burning bush”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)