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squawbush

American

[skwaw-boosh] / ˈskwɔˌbʊʃ /

noun

a rank-smelling, sprawling shrub, Rhus trilobata malacophylla, of the cashew family, native to California, having spikes of greenish flowers.

1825–35, squaw + bush ¹, so called from its use by the Indians

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