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SPICE BUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spice bush mean? 

SPICE BUSH (noun)
  The noun SPICE BUSH has 1 sense:

1. deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berriesplay

  Familiarity information: SPICE BUSH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPICE BUSH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American spicebush; Benjamin bush; Benzoin odoriferum; Lindera benzoin; spice bush; spicebush

Hypernyms ("spice bush" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("spice bush" is a member of...):

genus Lindera; Lindera (aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America)


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