spicebush
Americannoun
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Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
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a North American shrub, Calycanthus occidentalis, having oblong leaves and fragrant, light-brown flowers.
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Etymology
Origin of spicebush
Example Sentences
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Prospect Park in May is a commotion of beauty: meadows and dense rambles, hills and hollows, everything covered in chokeberries, spicebush, violets, flowering hawthorns, magnolias and lindens.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2021
Related and affected trees include avocado, sassafras, northern spicebush and at least two endangered plants: pondberry and pond spice, Riggins said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 8, 2017
Less well known are plants such as wild ginger, which tastes of spearmint and black pepper; ginseng; sumac; and spicebush, a wild variety of allspice.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2016
This spicebush swallowtail caterpillar is in disguise as something much scarier: Birds pass it up as a snack because to them, these fake-eyed mimics look like snakes or treefrogs.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 2, 2015
The sunlight filters through lacy hemlock needles and we stretch out on our backs, chewing the tasty twigs of a spicebush and silently admiring the forest.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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