spice bush

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   deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries

   SynonymsspicebushAmerican spicebushBenjamin bushLindera benzoinBenzoin odoriferum

   Broadershrub

   Part ofLindera

Questions about spice bush

What does spice bush mean?

spice bush means "deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries".

What is another word for spice bush?

Close synonyms include spicebush, American spicebush, Benjamin bush, Lindera benzoin, Benzoin odoriferum. 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 spice bush a common word?

spice bush 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.