Sweetshrub

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A deciduous flowering plant of the genus Calycanthus with aromatic bark and flowers. uncountable, usually

    "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."

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spicebushspicebush

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"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."

Etymology

From sweet + shrub.

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flowering plant

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