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sweet shrub

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noun

Carolina allspice.

Origin of sweet shrub

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

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Examples from the Web for sweet shrub

Historical Examples of sweet shrub

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
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