snowball bush

American  

noun

1. guelder rose.

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Etymology

Origin of snowball bush

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

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

"Rain, rain!" wailed Martin Luther under his breath, as he pressed his cheek to the window-pane and looked without interest at a forlorn rooster huddled with a couple of hens under the snowball bush.

From The Road to Providence by Daviess, Maria Thompson

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)

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