snowball bush
Americannoun
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
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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
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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
The old lady has a fine snowball bush and a beauty syringa in front of the house.
From Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
I broke one of those rank green sprouts from the snowball bush and brushed away the flies, so she wouldn't fret, stamp, and throw dust on herself.
From Laddie; a true blue story by Stratton-Porter, Gene
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