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sweetshrub

sweetshrub noun: a deciduous flowering plant of the genus Calycanthus with aromatic bark and flowers.

sweetshrub: a deciduous flowering plant of the genus Calycanthus with aromatic bark and flowers
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Noun

sweetshrub (usually uncountable, plural sweetshrubs)

  1. (usually) A deciduous flowering plant of the genus Calycanthus with aromatic bark and flowers.
    • To screen out the houses, Mr. Darke and Ms. Zoehrer have planted cedars and katsura trees, sweetshrub and shadbush, and turned their gaze inward, to the garden of their own making.2007 May 31, Anne Raver, “Reshaping Their Own Worldview”, in New York Times

Forms of sweetshrub

pluralsweetshrubs

Origin of sweetshrub

From sweet + shrub, named for the pleasant aroma of the entire plant.

Questions about sweetshrub

What does sweetshrub mean?
Sweetshrub means a deciduous flowering plant of the genus Calycanthus with aromatic bark and flowers.
What part of speech is sweetshrub?
Sweetshrub is a noun.
What is the plural of sweetshrub?
The plural of sweetshrub is sweetshrubs.

Words near sweetshrub in the dictionary

  1. sweets
  2. Sweetser
  3. Sweetsers
  4. sweetshop
  5. sweetshops
  6. sweetshrub
  7. sweetshrubs
  8. sweetsmelling
  9. sweetsome
  10. sweetsop
  11. sweetsops

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