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Definition of Squaw-bush
1. Noun. Deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squaw-bush
Literary usage of Squaw-bush
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary: A Reference Volume for All Requiring by Chemical Catalog Company, Inc (1920)
"Viburnum Opulus* (Cramp bark; High cranberry; Cranberry tree; Water elder; Squaw
bush; Snowball bush). Derivation: Dried bark of Viburnum opulus. ..."
2. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"SQUAW BUSH. Somewhat diffusely branching, 2 to 5 ft. high; leaflets broadly ovate
or elliptic in outline, ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"... Florida, North Dakota, Nebraska and Texas. Swamp dogwood. Blueberry-cornell.
Red- osier; red-brush or-willow. Rose-willow. Squaw- bush. May-July. 3. ..."
4. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond, William Abbatt (1878)
"The writer remembers it as " Squaw Bush," a great place for berries in his boyhood
days. In an original document now before me, dated Oneida, ..."
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