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Meanings of burning bush in English

Densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn.

Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather.

Synonyms
Examples for "belvedere"
Examples for "belvedere"
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The view from the belvedere of this palace well repays the observer.
Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North
2
There was a belvedere, and if we had only brought our blankets!
Riviera Towns
3
Kemp led the way up the narrow staircase to the belvedere.
The Invisible Man
4
The painter went again to rest his elbows on the balustrade of the belvedere.
Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)
5
In another moment Griffin would have been alone in the belvedere study, a prisoner.
The Invisible Man
1
He say white men all go away, or he fire bush and use the poisoned arrow.
A Millionaire of Yesterday
2
Courtesy Len Lye Foundation Len Lye Fire Bush 1961 (2007 reconstruction.
Radio NZ

Deciduous shrub having purple capsules enclosing scarlet seeds.

Usage of burning bush in English
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His poetry is like the burning bush, revealing God in the fire.
The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century
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But he did not feel like a prophet facing the burning bush.
Anvil of stars
3
God speaking out of a burning bush or the Ascension to Heaven?
This Freedom
4
The burning bush shows the theophany in the Jehovist to be the earlier.
Prolegomena to the History of Israel
5
His eyes under the shadow of Horeb had looked on the burning bush.
The Bible Period by Period / A Manual for the Study of the Bible...
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Fetch me a burning bush and I shall play Jehovah to your Moses.
The confusion
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What Moshe is doing will be the biggest news since the burning bush.
Roma eterna
8
He speaketh to us, As from the burning bush He spake to Moses!
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A burning bush, in silver and gold thread against the white.
Romancing miss bronte: a novel
10
You can be a rat swarm, a burning bush, a cockroach.
Wired
11
Like the burning bush when he spoke to old Moses.
Travels With My Aunt
12
The miracle here is the reverse of that of the burning bush mentioned in Exodus.
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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Three seconds longer, and Elijah of the burning bush and I would have been history.
The power of one
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It's only a short step from a burning bush to a burning heretic, after all.
Agents of light and darkness
15
He had called the big clump of azaleas "the burning bush."
Penny Plain
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Suddenly, nearly every torch and burning bush winked out.
Worldwinder
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