calico bush


Origin of calico bush

1
An Americanism dating back to 1805–15

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How to use calico bush in a sentence

  • calico bush is one of its names, and is supposed to be descriptive of the flowers.

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British Dictionary definitions for calico bush

calico bush

noun
  1. another name for mountain laurel

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