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PEPPER BUSH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pepper bush mean?
• PEPPER BUSH (noun)
The noun PEPPER BUSH has 1 sense:
1. shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers
Familiarity information: PEPPER BUSH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Clethra alnifolia; pepper bush; summer sweet; sweet pepperbush; white alder
Hypernyms ("pepper bush" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
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