Home › Words › B › bearbrushbearbrushbearbrush means an American flowering shrub of species Garrya fremontii.EtymologyBear + brushnounAn American flowering shrub of species Garrya fremontii.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.horsebrush 73% match — Any of various flowering plants in the genus Tetradymia, native to mountainous western North America, especially the US. vs bearbrush →blackbrush 68% match — A shrub of the genus Coleogyne vs bearbrush →bitterbrush 67% match — Any member of the genus Purshia of flowering shrubs, native to western North America. vs bearbrush →badgerbrush 67% match — The plant Symphoricarpos occidentalis. vs bearbrush →bullberry 66% match — The plant Shepherdia argentea. vs bearbrush →bushrue 64% match — An aromatic shrub native to California, Cneoridium dumosum vs bearbrush →beebrush 64% match — Any of the genus Aloysia of flowering plants in the verbena family. vs bearbrush →sagebrush 64% match — Any of several North American aromatic shrubs of the genus Artemisia, having silvery-grey, green leaves. vs bearbrush →