Usage of "strawberry shrub"

Hardy shrub of southeastern United States having clove-scented wood and fragrant red-brown flowers.

Synonyms

Examples for "Carolina allspice"

So, when you wade into a thorny thicket amid the mosquitoes on a hot, humid day, you don't do it for just any strawberry bush. 
 Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies 

As a child, I had been given the task of carefully untwisting the vine from the strawberry bushes. 
 The day the falls stood still 

"Come along, Elisabeth," said Reinhard, "I know where there is a clump of strawberry bushes; you shan't eat dry bread." 
 Immensee 

Dogwood, witch hazel, and sweet shrub packed the under-story, tinting the air with sun-baked sweetness. 
 Break No Bones 

Hail to ye, sweet shrubs and wild flowers, omnis copia narium, that clothe the mountain-skirts of the silent Lautulae! 
 Zanoni 

There 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. 
 Castle Richmond 

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Meanings of strawberry shrub in English