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Spell Bee Word: bottlebrush


Basic Details

Word: Bottlebrush

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: A brush with a long handle for cleaning inside bottles. It is also the name of a tree with red flowers shaped like that brush.

How to Spell Bottlebrush

Syllables: bot - tle - brush

Tricky part: Bottle has a double t and ends in le. Children write botlebrush or bottelbrush.

Watch out for: botlebrush, bottelbrush, bottlebrash

Memory tip: Two everyday words glued together: bottle + brush. The red flowers really look like the brush you clean a bottle with.

Usage Examples

Example 1: Mummy uses a bottlebrush to clean my water bottle.

Example 2: A bottlebrush tree grows outside our school gate.

Example 3: Sunbirds sip nectar from the red bottlebrush flowers.

Fun Fact

The bottlebrush tree comes from Australia, but it is now planted in many Indian gardens and along roads.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Fusion

Add the correct option to the following to make a new word:

bottle______

a) bursh
b) brush
c) bruch
d) brosh

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b) brush. Bottle and brush stay whole when they join, so brush keeps its u.

Spellacadabra

From which option does a letter need to be removed to make a meaningful word?

a) toothpaste
b) raincoat
c) sunflower
d) bottlebrusch

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d) bottlebrusch. Remove the c and you have bottlebrush.

Word Champ

Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?

bottlebrush

a) those
b) boots
c) hotel
d) brush

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b) boots. Boots needs two o's, but bottlebrush has only one.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can you clean with a bottlebrush?

a) your teeth
b) a car
c) the inside of a bottle
d) a window

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c) the inside of a bottle

2. Why is the bottlebrush tree called so?

a) it grows inside bottles
b) it has no leaves
c) its fruit is shaped like a bottle
d) its flowers look like a bottle brush

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d) its flowers look like a bottle brush

Associated Words

hecklergrillcombswaggersuccour
pastecribpairbowtablemat

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