Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two ceanothus shrubs (Ceanothus cordulatus or C. velutinus) having white flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several shrubs bearing profuse white flowers. such are Ceanothus cordulatus of Californian mountains, Olearia stellulata of Australia and Tasmania, and Phyllanthus nivalis of the New Hebrides.
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Examples
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Other plants such as the chaparral snowbush require the heat of wildland fires to crack their seed coats.
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At their feet clutched snowbush, ground juniper, the gnarled fingers of manzañita, like devotees.
The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909
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From the side hill, exposed all the afternoon to the California summer sun, rose tepid odours of bear-clover and snowbush, which exhaled out into space, giving way to the wandering, faint perfumes of night.
The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909
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As he replaced his hat, his eye caught a glimpse of a man crouching and gliding cautiously forward through the low concealment of the snowbush.
The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909
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They were scattered all over the hill, cropping busily at the snowbush, moving ever slowly forward.
The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909
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Keep a close watch if this pest is present in your landscape and treat if the caterpillars start to gnaw on the snowbush branches.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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This yellow and black snowbush spanworm is dining heartily.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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Consider paying a child a penny a worm to pick snowbush spanworms off your plants and drop them into a container of soapy water.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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As an adult, the snowbush spanworm is a white-tipped black moth.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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