ceanothus

[ see-uh-noh-thuhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural ce·a·no·thus·es.

any North American shrub or small tree of the largely western genus Ceanothus, having clusters of small white or blue flowers.

ceanothus

/ ˌsiːəˈnəʊθəs /

any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters

< New Latin (Linnaeus) < Greek keánōthos a species of thistle

C19: New Latin, from Greek keanōthos a kind of thistle

The old foreground of buckeye and odorous ceanothus was gone.

The azaleas were already budding, the ceanothus getting ready its lilac livery for spring.

Another ceanothus, commonly called mountain birch, is often found.

The genus Ceanothus is well known from the beautiful C. azureus.

It is our holly, as the Ceanothus is our lilac, and the poison-oak is our autumn-red sumac.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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