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sweet shrub

noun

Carolina allspice.

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Origin of sweet shrub

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

Words nearby sweet shrub

sweet potato, sweet roll, sweet scabious, sweet-scented, sweet-shop, sweet shrub, sweetsop, sweet sorghum, sweet spirit of nitre, sweet spot, sweet talk
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Example sentences from the Web for sweet shrub

  • She went and stood at her window, drawing in deep breaths of rain-freshened air, dense with sweet-shrub and honeysuckle.

    Shadows of Flames|Amelie Rives

  • There was a delicious odor of sweet-shrub in the air, and the fruity fragrance of the dark, wild wake-robin underfoot.

    The Mountain Girl|Payne Erskine