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sweetshrubs

sweetshrubs is the plural of sweetshrub.

Meaning of sweetshrub

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

Questions about sweetshrubs

What is sweetshrubs the plural of?
Sweetshrubs is the plural of sweetshrub.

Words near sweetshrubs in the dictionary

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

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