Definition of Sweet shrub

1. Noun. Hardy shrub of southeastern United States having clove-scented wood and fragrant red-brown flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweet Shrub

sweet pepper plant
sweet pepperbush
sweet peppers
sweet pickle
sweet potato
sweet potato vine
sweet potatoes
sweet reseda
sweet rocket
sweet roll
sweet sand verbena
sweet scabious
sweet science
sweet seventeen
sweet shop
sweet shrub (current term)
sweet sixteens
sweet sorghum
sweet spots
sweet sultan
sweet talk
sweet talker
sweet tooth
sweet tooths
sweet unicorn plant
sweet vermouth
sweet vetch
sweet violet

Literary usage of Sweet shrub

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"The tallest species, to 12 feet, and the one with the largest leaves is WESTERN sweet shrub—Caly- canthus occidentalis — from California. ..."

2. Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, N.C. (1907)
"Chimonanthus • The Oriental sweet shrub An early-flowering shrub with a wealth of ... ORIENTAL sweet shrub. A shrub with dark green, lustrous foliage. ..."

3. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1915)
"... Sumach, Sweet Pepper Bush, sweet shrub, Wax Myrtle, White Fringe, Wistaria. ... Russian Olive, Osage Orange, Wild Yellow Plum, Sassafras, sweet shrub, ..."

4. "Forget Not Mee & My Garden...": Selected Letters, 1725-1768, of Peter by Peter Collinson, Alan W. Armstrong (2002)
"He treats you like an English Man with Decency & Good Man- Calycanthus, sweet shrub. Pierre-Joseph Buchoz. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. ..."

5. "Forget Not Mee & My Garden...": Selected Letters, 1725-1768, of Peter by Peter Collinson, Alan W. Armstrong (2002)
"He treats you like an English Man with Decency & Good Man- Calycanthus, sweet shrub. Pierre-Joseph Buchoz. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. ..."

6. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"The tallest species, to 12 feet, and the one with the largest leaves is WESTERN sweet shrub—Caly- canthus occidentalis — from California. ..."

7. Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, N.C. (1907)
"Chimonanthus • The Oriental sweet shrub An early-flowering shrub with a wealth of ... ORIENTAL sweet shrub. A shrub with dark green, lustrous foliage. ..."

8. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1915)
"... Sumach, Sweet Pepper Bush, sweet shrub, Wax Myrtle, White Fringe, Wistaria. ... Russian Olive, Osage Orange, Wild Yellow Plum, Sassafras, sweet shrub, ..."

9. "Forget Not Mee & My Garden...": Selected Letters, 1725-1768, of Peter by Peter Collinson, Alan W. Armstrong (2002)
"He treats you like an English Man with Decency & Good Man- Calycanthus, sweet shrub. Pierre-Joseph Buchoz. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. ..."

10. "Forget Not Mee & My Garden...": Selected Letters, 1725-1768, of Peter by Peter Collinson, Alan W. Armstrong (2002)
"He treats you like an English Man with Decency & Good Man- Calycanthus, sweet shrub. Pierre-Joseph Buchoz. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. ..."

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