Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genera Leucothoe, Lyonia, and Pieris, having clusters of small bell-shaped white or pink flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An erica-ceous evergreen shrub, Andromeda nitida, of the pine-barrens of the southern United States. It bears numerous fragrant white flowers in axillary clusters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An ornamental evergreen shrub (
Pieris floribunda ) of the Southeastern U. S. having small white bell-shaped flowers. - noun A showy evergreen shrub (
Lyonia lucida ) of the Southeastern U. S. with shiny leaves and angled branches and umbel-like clusters of pink to reddish flowers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
heathlike shrubs , especially:
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel
- noun showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel
- noun ornamental evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small white bell-shaped flowers
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Examples
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Seeps in sand hills support acid bog species including southern sweetbay, gallberry, wax-myrtles, fetterbush, insectivorous plants, orchids, and wild azalea.
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The most common plants are evergreen trees (loblolly bay, red bay, and sweet bay), and evergreen shrubs (titi, fetterbush, and zenobia).
Pocosins 2008
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Then a man emerged from a grove of fetterbush and hoptree.
The Unquiet John Connolly 2007
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Then a man emerged from a grove of fetterbush and hoptree.
The Unquiet John Connolly 2007
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