honeybush

== English == === Etymology === From honey +‎ bush; for the South African plant, a calque of Afrikaans heuningbos (heuning +‎ bos). Compare related borrowing rooibos (literally “redbush”) from rooi (“red”) +‎ bos (“bush”). === Noun === honeybush (plural honeybushes) (South Africa) Any of a group of bushes in the genus Cyclopia whose flowers smell of honey and whose leaves are used to make an herbal tea. Synonym: honeybush tea Hypernyms: bush tea, red tea Coordinate terms: rooibos, rooibos tea Any of several not closely related shrubs that have features reminiscent of honey, of species: Cuttsia viburnea (native elderberry), of rainforests in New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. Hakea lissocarpha (duck-and-drake-bush), of Western Australia Melianthus major (Cape honeyflower), of South Africa and naturalised elsewhere Richea scoparia, of Tasmania