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Definition of Smoke bush

1. Noun. Any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus.

2. Noun. Any of various shrubs of the genus Conospermum with panicles of mostly white woolly flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoke Bush

smoiles smoiling smokability smokable smoke smoke-cured smoke-dried smoke-filled smoke-free smoke-signal

smoke-signals smoke alarm smoke alarms smoke and mirrors smoke bomb smoke bush (current term) smoke detector smoke detectors smoke dope smoke eater

smoke eaters smoke explosion smoke explosions smoke grenade smoke hole smoke inhalation injury smoke jumper smoke jumpers smoke like a chimney smoke out

Literary usage of Smoke bush

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

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"11 Lit Digest 60: 190 Ja 30 '15 This gentleman wants the smoke out of your coal. Everybody's 33:255-6 Ag '15 smoke bush Venetian sumach. ..."

2. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"suckle, mulberry, white spruce, sour cherry, sumach, smoke-bush, locust, raspberry and the blackberry, elder, sassafras, various species of Spiraea, ..."

3. Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds by Mabel Osgood Wright (1917)
"Vesper Sparrow: Smoke-bush. Grasshopper Sparrow: Under small spruce. Song Sparrow: In many places, — hedge, bushes, ground. Chipping Sparrow : High in ..."

4. Landscape Gardening as Applied to Home Decoration by Samuel Taylor Maynard (1915)
"Purple Fringe or smoke bush (Rhus Cotinus), Fig. 130. —The beautiful mass of filaments produced about the flowers and fruit of this plant, often called ..."

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