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SWITCH-IVY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does switch-ivy mean?
• SWITCH-IVY (noun)
The noun SWITCH-IVY has 1 sense:
1. fast-growing evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having arching interlaced branches and racemes of white flowers
Familiarity information: SWITCH-IVY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fast-growing evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having arching interlaced branches and racemes of white flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
dog hobble; dog laurel; Leucothoe editorum; Leucothoe fontanesiana; switch-ivy
Hypernyms ("switch-ivy" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("switch-ivy" is a member of...):
genus Leucothoe (American and Asiatic deciduous and evergreen shrubs)
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