New Zealand daisybush
- noun
- New Zealand
:
arbusto margarita de Nueva Zelanda
- The New Zealand daisybush brightened up the garden with its clusters of fragrant white flowers.
Examples
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Gardeners often choose the New Zealand daisybush for its hardy nature and attractive blooms.
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We planted a New Zealand daisybush by the fence to add year-round greenery and springtime color.
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The New Zealand daisybush blooms beautifully in spring.
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I planted a New Zealand daisybush in my garden last year.
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Gardeners often choose the New Zealand daisybush for its hardy nature and attractive blooms.
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The New Zealand daisybush brightened up the garden with its clusters of fragrant white flowers.
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We planted a New Zealand daisybush by the fence to add year-round greenery and springtime color.
Synonyms
A bushy shrub from New Zealand with white scented flowers
An evergreen shrub with many daisy-like flowers and sometimes fragrant leaves grown in gardens
An evergreen bush with many daisy-like flowers in white, purple or blue
A small bush with green leaves all year and daisy-like flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
New + Zealand + daisybush
The phrase simply combines the place-name 'New Zealand' with the noun 'daisybush', so the meaning 'a daisybush from New Zealand' is directly derivable from the parts. This country-name + noun composition is a standard, cross-linguistic pattern in English noun phrases, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
New Zealand daisybush gets its name from a simple picture: New Zealand shows where the plant comes from and daisy + bush shows it is a bush covered in daisy-like flowers. So the name means 'a bush with daisy-like blooms from New Zealand', which fits the fragrant white flower heads gardeners plant.
