Hardy shrub of southeastern United States having clove-scented wood and fragrant red-brown flowers.
1Dogwood, witch hazel, and sweet shrub packed the under-story, tinting the air with sun-baked sweetness.
2Hail to ye, sweet shrubs and wild flowers, omnis copia narium, that clothe the mountain-skirts of the silent Lautulae!
3There are no gardens close up to the house, no flower-beds in the nooks and corners, no sweet shrubs peeping in at the square windows.