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Meanings of Comptonia peregrina in English

Deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers.

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        Examples for "sweet fern"
        Examples for "sweet fern"
        1
        Boxberry, fever-bush, sweet fern, and horseradish make a good and healthy diet-drink.
        The American Frugal Housewife
        2
        The shrubs and plants are young bush poplars, whortleberries, shad-bush, brake and sweet fern.
        Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
        3
        The sweet fern and indigo in overgrown wood-paths wet you with dew up to your middle.
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        4
        Rub your hands in sweet fern.
        Current Superstitions / Collected from the Oral Tradition of Eng...
        5
        Under the hostess's direction they betook themselves via footpath and trail to a stone-walled pasture spicy with sweet fern.
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