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COMMON BOG ROSEMARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common bog rosemary mean? 

COMMON BOG ROSEMARY (noun)
  The noun COMMON BOG ROSEMARY has 1 sense:

1. erect to procumbent evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of sphagnum peat bogs and other wet acidic areas in northern Europeplay

  Familiarity information: COMMON BOG ROSEMARY used as a noun is very rare.


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COMMON BOG ROSEMARY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Erect to procumbent evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of sphagnum peat bogs and other wet acidic areas in northern Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Andromeda polifolia; common bog rosemary; marsh andromeda

Hypernyms ("common bog rosemary" is a kind of...):

andromeda (any of several shrubs of the genus Andromeda having leathery leaves and clusters of small flowers)


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