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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 flowersplay

  Familiarity information: SWITCH-IVY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SWITCH-IVY (noun)


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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