sweetshrub
nounEtymology From sweet + shrub, named for the pleasant aroma of the entire plant.
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Usually A deciduous flowering plant of the genus Calycanthus with aromatic bark and flowers.
- To screen out the houses, Mr. Darke and Ms. Zoehrer have planted cedars and katsura trees, sweetshrub and shadbush, and turned their gaze inward, to the garden of their own making.2007 May 31, Anne Raver, “Reshaping Their Own Worldview”, in New York Times: