strawberry bush

strawberry bush
noun
1. hardy shrub of southeastern United States having clove-scented wood and fragrant red-brown flowers
Hypernyms: ↑allspice
2. upright deciduous plant with crimson pods and seeds; the eastern United States from New York to Florida and Texas
Syn: ↑wahoo, ↑Euonymus americanus
Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush
Member Holonyms: ↑Euonymus, ↑genus Euonymus

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noun
1.
a. : a No. American shrub (Euonymus americanus) having crimson pods and seeds with a scarlet aril
b. : wahoo II a

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strawberry bush,
1. a low, upright or straggling North American shrub of the staff-tree family with crimson fruit and seeds with scarlet coverings.
2. = wahoo1. (Cf.wahoo)

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