skunkbush

1. 1.

   deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit

   Synonymssquawbushsquaw-bushRhus trilobata

   Broadersumac

Other forms of skunkbush

plural

skunkbushes·

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 skunkbush

What does skunkbush mean?

skunkbush means "deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit".

How many syllables are in skunkbush?

skunkbush has 2 syllables: skunk-bush. The stress falls on "skunk".

What is another word for skunkbush?

Close synonyms include squawbush, squaw-bush, Rhus trilobata. 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 skunkbush a common word?

skunkbush is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.