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Definition of Spice bush

1. Noun. Deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spice Bush

Literary usage of Spice bush

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

1. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"To the feminine entomologist the first introduction to the spice-bush caterpillar is usually quite as demoralizing. That blank, unwinking stare of the two ..."

2. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"Lindera Benzoin Meisner—Spice-Bush, Wild Allspice, Fever-Bush. ... The bark of the spice-bush has a warm spicy taste, and in sufficient doses acts as a ..."

3. The Shrubs of Northeastern America by Charles Stedman Newhall (1893)
"(Spice-Bush.) From the name of a Swedish botanist. Fig. 89.—Spice-Bush. Fever-Bush. Benjamin-Bush. Wild Allspice. ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1879)
"ON spice bush BERRIES.* BY ADOLPH W. MILLER. MD PH. ... (spice bush berry) thnt they yield nearly fifty per cent, of fixed oil, besides about five per cent, ..."

5. Sharp Eyes: A Rambler's Calendar of [fifty-two] Weeks Among Insects, Birds by William Hamilton Gibson (1900)
"To the feminine entomologist the first introduction to the spice - bush caterpillar is usually quite as demoralizing. That blank, unwinking stare of the two ..."

6. Sharp Eyes: A Rambler's Calendar of Fifty-two Weeks Among Insects, Birds and by William Hamilton Gibson (1892)
"How impossible is it for us to pass the spice-bush without exchanging a greeting or two with its sly tenants! I remember an incident in early boyhood which ..."

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