squawbush

[ skwaw-boosh ]

noun

1. a rank-smelling, sprawling shrub, Rhus trilobata malacophylla, of the cashew family, native to California, having spikes of greenish flowers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of squawbush¹

1825–35, Americanism; squaw + bush ¹, so called from its use by the Indians