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summer sweet

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sum⋅mer-sweet

[suhm-er-sweet]

sweet pep⋅per⋅bush

[pep-er-boosh]
–noun
a shrub, Clethra alnifolia, of the eastern and southern coastal U.S., having numerous erect clusters of white or pinkish flowers.


Origin:
1830–40, Americanism
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summer sweet

noun
shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers [syn: sweet pepperbush
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