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snowball bush

American  

noun

  1. guelder rose.


Etymology

Origin of snowball bush

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

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Gregarious John Townsend, whose head looks like a snowball bush in full bloom, is solidly Republican, completely acceptable to Delaware's Du Pont dynasty.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hydrangea bush—or snowball bush, as we called it—on our lawn glowed in the sunlight, and I stared at it.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

Beneath the fluted columns a single great snowball bush appeared to float like a cloud in the warm wind.

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

An oriole burst into melody, swinging in the great snowball bush near the Willow Street fence.

From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks

And he put his other arm around mother, so May and I crowded up, and we had a family reunion right between the day lilies and the snowball bush.

From Laddie; a true blue story by Stratton-Porter, Gene

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