fetterbush

1. 1.

   ornamental evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small white bell-shaped flowers

   Synonymsmountain fetterbushmountain andromedaPieris floribunda

   Broadershrub

   Part ofPieris
2. 2.

   showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel

   Synonymsfetter bushshiny lyoniaLyonia lucida

   Broadershrub

   Part ofLyonia

Other forms of fetterbush

plural

fetterbushes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fetterbush

What does fetterbush mean?

fetterbush means "ornamental evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small white bell-shaped flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fetterbush?

fetterbush has 3 syllables: fet-ter-bush. The stress falls on "fet".

What is another word for fetterbush?

Close synonyms include mountain fetterbush, mountain andromeda, Pieris floribunda, fetter bush, shiny lyonia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fetterbush a common word?

fetterbush is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.