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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An American shrub, Neillia (Spiræa) opulifolia, sometimes planted. It is so named on account of the numerous layers of the loose bark. See cut under
Neillia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (
Neillia opulifolia , orSpiræa opulifolia ), common in the Northern United States. The bark separates into many thin layers, whence the name.
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Sweeping curves like sculptured arms bearing thickly clustered hemispheres of purplish white are seen on the rocky slope where the nine-bark grows above the lingering columbines.
Some Spring Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905
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This rivulet traverses a range of low grounds for some miles, occasionally spreading itself out into morasses, which were formerly, and in some places are now, overgrown with thickets of arrow-wood, nine-bark, and various other shrubs, the growth of this region.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832
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The seven bark or nine-bark as it is called in the U States is also common in this quarter.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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