Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
swamp-honeysuckle ; also extended to other azaleas.
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Examples
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But with June comes the most exquisite of our New England wild-flowers, the arethusa, or swamp-pink, as it is often styled, to the great confusion of its delicate, high-born nature with the great, vulgar, flaunting azalea.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various
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Every plant and field and forest emits its odor now, -- swamp-pink in the meadow, and tansy in the road; and there is the peculiar dry scent of corn which has begun to show its tassels.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various
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Every plant and field and forest emits its odor now, swamp-pink in the meadow and tansy in the road; and there is the peculiar dry scent of corn which has begun to show its tassels.
Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839
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