Definition of Mountain andromeda

1. Noun. Ornamental evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small white bell-shaped flowers.

Exact synonyms: Fetterbush, Mountain Fetterbush, Pieris Floribunda
Group relationships: Genus Pieris, Pieris
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountain Andromeda

moundlike
mounds
mounier-kuhn syndrome
mounseer
mounseers
mount up
mountable
mountain
mountain(a)
mountain-goat
mountain-lion
mountain-reindeer
mountain alder
mountain anaemia
mountain andromeda (current term)
mountain anemone
mountain ash
mountain avens
mountain azalea
mountain balm
mountain bearberries
mountain bearberry
mountain beaver
mountain bike
mountain bikes
mountain biking
mountain birch
mountain blacksnake
mountain bladder fern

Literary usage of Mountain andromeda

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

1. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1855)
"spiraea and the mountain andromeda. . Here too the Dutch myrtle and the sweet fern mingle their fragrance with the ..."

2. Studies in the Field & Forest by Wilson Flagg (1857)
"... pines and birches covers its summit, together with various shrubs, such as the whortleberry, the wood-pyrus, the" spiraea, and the mountain andromeda. ..."

3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1855)
"spiraea and the mountain andromeda. . Here too the Dutch myrtle and the sweet fern mingle their fragrance with the ..."

4. Studies in the Field & Forest by Wilson Flagg (1857)
"... pines and birches covers its summit, together with various shrubs, such as the whortleberry, the wood-pyrus, the" spiraea, and the mountain andromeda. ..."

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