pepper bush

Questions about pepper bush

What is another word for pepper bush?

It depends which pepper bush you mean. In the sense “shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers”, the synonyms are sweet pepperbush, summer sweet, white alder, Clethra alnifolia. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pepper bush?

WordNet records no antonym for pepper bush. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pepper bush come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of pepper bush

• Full entry for pepper bushAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pepper bushWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.