Definitions
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- noun an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance
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(hexenbesen) of the German forests; in other instances, it is a result of mutilation as after the operation of pollarding.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
sionnach commented on the word hexenbesen
Not to be confused with those three witches, the Ebsen sisters, or die HexenEbsen.
December 8, 2008