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Definition of Dog hobble
1. Noun. Fast-growing evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having arching interlaced branches and racemes of white flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Leucothoe
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dog Hobble
Literary usage of Dog hobble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"... capsule depressed, strongly 5-lobed, about 2" in diameter. April. Dog-hobble.
Dog-laurel. Along streams. Virginia to Tennessee and Georgia. ..."
2. Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern by Horace Kephart (1922)
"What matter that the plenteous roughs about us were branded with rude or opprobrious
names? Rip Shin Thicket, Dog-hobble Ridge, the Rough Arm, Bear-wallow, ..."
3. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Believed to be extirpated, collected once in Monroe Co. in 1880. • Leucothoe
racemosa (L.) A.Gray Fetter-bush; Swamp dog-hobble Deciduous shrub Moist, ..."
4. Gardens Near the Sea: The Making and Care of Gardens on Or Near the Coast by Alice Lounsberry (1910)
"... for which there is no common name of more sentiment than dog hobble, is a
native of the southern states and possessed of much beauty. ..."
5. Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Great Men of India: Both Official and Non by Ram Copal Sanyal (1894)
"His praise worthy conduct daring the celebrated "dog-hobble" of of 1832 is cited
by our contemporary in proof of his good sense and judgment, ..."
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