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squaw-bush

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squaw⋅bush

  [skwaw-boosh]
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–noun
a rank-smelling, sprawling shrub, Rhus trilobata malacophylla, of the cashew family, native to California, having spikes of greenish flowers.
Origin:
1825–35, Americanism; squaw + bush 1 , so called from its use by the Indians
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squaw-bush

noun
deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit [syn: squawbush] 
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