steeplebush
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of steeplebush
1810–20, steeple + bush 1; so called because of its steeplelike blossom shoots
Example Sentences
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Steepletop, named for the pink-flowered steeplebush plant that grows wildly here, has been open to the public since 2010.
From New York Times
Other summer pink flowers: Steeplebush—Low places.
From Project Gutenberg
There are also to be had for the digging good bushes of the early pink and clammy white azalea, mountain-laurel, several of the blueberry tribe, that have white flowers in summer and glorious crimson foliage in autumn, white-flowered elder, button-bush, groundsel tree, witchhazel, bayberry, the shining-leaved sumach, the white meadow-sweet, and pink steeplebush, besides a number of cornels and viburnums suitable for shrubberies.
From Project Gutenberg
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