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butterflybush

butterflybush is the alternative spelling of butterfly bush.

Meaning of butterfly bush

Noun

butterfly bush (plural butterfly bushes)

  1. Any buddleia, of genus Buddleja.
  2. especially of the species Buddleja davidii and Buddleja globosa.
  3. Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa).
  4. Blue butterfly bush (Rotheca myricoides, syn. Clerodendrum ugandense).

Forms of butterflybush

pluralbutterflybushes

Origin of butterflybush

From butterfly + bush.

Questions about butterflybush

What is butterflybush the alternative spelling of?
Butterflybush is the alternative spelling of butterfly bush.

Words near butterflybush in the dictionary

  1. butterfly valve
  2. butterfly valves
  3. butterfly watching
  4. butterfly weed
  5. butterfly-knotted
  6. butterflybush
  7. butterflyer
  8. butterflyers
  9. butterflyfish
  10. butterflyfishes
  11. butterflying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butterflybush (page history and authors); butterfly bush (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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