Any of various shrubs (especially the emu bush) which grows in the poor soil of the drier regions of Australia.
a low wind hissed through the poverty bushes that lined the road
Example sentencesExamples
- Poverty bushes create splashes of brilliant colour.
- The hopbush, poverty bush, and arcasia are in bloom.
- The stamens are entirely enclosed by the flower and not held outside as in some poverty bushes.
- There are occasional outcrops of the underlying sandstones as small hills carrying scattered shrubs such as wattle, poverty bush, and cassia.
- He preferred the tougher life up north with its poverty bushes.