DOG LAUREL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Fast-growing evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having arching interlaced branches and racemes of white flowers

Synonyms:

dog hobble; dog laurel; Leucothoe editorum; Leucothoe fontanesiana; switch-ivy

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("dog laurel" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("dog laurel" is a member of...):

genus Leucothoe (American and Asiatic deciduous and evergreen shrubs)

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