ambush Prefix/Suffix Words. [count] : a plant that has stems of wood and is smaller than a tree. Bengali keyboard to type a text with the Bengali characters. bubush A pet name to call your Child or an Individul in which are younger than you. Machinery. Use the noun brush when you want to refer to a quick, light touch. given to arguing. Adult: pass me the orange peels on the table Child: ok Adult: Thank you bubush by the people lord February 1, 2016 Get the bubush mug. noun the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities. More 'ambush' Meaning. Learn more. bhang and hashish as well as fiber, a stiff yucca with a short trunk; found in the southern United States and tropical America; has rigid spine-tipped leaves and clusters of white flowers, tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers, a large branched arborescent yucca of southwestern United States having short leaves and clustered greenish white flowers, arborescent yucca of southwestern United States and northern Mexico with sword-shaped leaves and white flowers, tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States, yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages, yucca of west central United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers, yucca of southeastern United States similar to the Spanish bayonets but with shorter trunk and smoother leaves, yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers, yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers, a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana, tropical shrub or small tree having showy yellow to orange-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana, tropical American plant having leaflets somewhat sensitive to the touch; sometimes placed in genus Cassia, tropical shrub (especially of Americas) having yellow flowers and large leaves whose juice is used as a cure for ringworm and poisonous bites; sometimes placed in genus Cassia, evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning; sometimes placed in genus Cassia, erect shrub having racemes of tawny yellow flowers; the dried leaves are used medicinally as a cathartic; sometimes placed in genus Cassia, cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia, very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee; sometimes classified in genus Cassia, shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; thought to indicate the presence of lead ore, an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers, dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers, large spiny shrub of eastern Asia having clusters of yellow flowers; often cultivated in shelterbelts and hedges, shrub with dark-green glossy foliage and solitary pale yellow flowers; northern China, small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent two-seeded pods, sprawling shrubby perennial noted for its scarlet black-marked flowers; widely distributed in dry parts of Australia, evergreen shrub with scarlet to white clawlike or beaklike flowers; New Zealand, European herb resembling vetch; naturalized in the eastern United States; having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods, low European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish-white flowers, deciduous erect spreading broom native to western Europe; widely cultivated for its rich yellow flowers, any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments, prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe, erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers, small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental, perennial of western United States having racemes of pink to purple flowers followed by flat pods that separate into nearly orbicular joints, perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop, European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints, shrub of West Indies and South America that is a source of indigo dye, an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum, an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum; often cultivated for Easter decorations, any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone, North American annual with red or rose-colored flowers, low-growing much-branched perennial of Canary Islands having orange-red to scarlet or purple flowers; naturalized in United States, European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America, stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers, the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing, European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners, Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots, tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California, a plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods, annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America, any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers, European alpine rose with crimson flowers, low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers, Chinese evergreen climbing rose with yellow or white single flowers, prickly wild rose with delicate pink or white scentless flowers; native to Europe, shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses, large hardy very fragrant pink rose; cultivated in Asia Minor as source of attar of roses; parent of many hybrids, Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips, Chinese climbing rose with fragrant white blossoms, vigorously growing rose having clusters of numerous small flowers; used for hedges and as grafting stock, rose native to Mediterranean region having curved or climbing branches and loose clusters of musky-scented flowers, any of several hybrid bush roses derived from a tea-scented Chinese rose with pink or yellow flowers, shrub or small tree of northwestern North America having fragrant creamy white flowers and small waxy purple-red fruits, open-growing shrub of eastern North America having pure white flowers and small waxy almost black fruits, deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms, deciduous thorny shrub native to China having red or white blossoms, climbing evergreen shrub with white flowers and red berries; often used as ground cover, deciduous flat-growing shrub with a fanned herringbone pattern and having reddish flowers and orange-red berries; used as a ground cover, southern United States hawthorn with pinnately lobed leaves, common shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having few thorns and white flowers in corymbs followed by bright orange-red berries, erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries, eastern United States hawthorn with long straight thorns, hawthorn of southern United States bearing a juicy, acidic, scarlet fruit that is often used in jellies or preserves, thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America, European hawthorn having deeply cleft leaves and bright red fruits; widely cultivated in many varieties and often grown as impenetrable hedges; established as an escape in eastern North America, American red-fruited hawthorn with stems and leaves densely covered with short woolly hairs, evergreen hawthorn of southeastern Europe, American red-fruited hawthorn with dense corymbs of pink-red flowers, creeping evergreen shrub with large white flowers; widely distributed in northern portions of Eurasia and North America, any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers, low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States; Europe; Asia, dwarf ornamental shrub of western United States having large black to red and yellow sweet edible fruit, shrub having copious small white flowers in spring, evergreen shrub widely cultivated for its large fragrant waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves, handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil, creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs, bushy honeysuckle with twining branches and white or yellow-white flowers; southern United States, erect deciduous North American shrub with yellow-white flowers, deciduous climbing shrub with fragrant yellow-white flowers in axillary whorls, twining deciduous shrub with clusters of purple-tinged yellow-green flowers; northeastern America, climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant yellow (later orange) flowers in terminal whorls; southeastern United States, twining deciduous shrub with hairy leaves and spikes of yellow-orange flowers; northeastern America, shrubby honeysuckle with purple flowers; western North America, an Asiatic trailing evergreen honeysuckle with half-evergreen leaves and fragrant white flowers turning yellow with age; has become a weed in some areas, a variety of Japanese honeysuckle that grows like a vine; established as an aggressive escape in southeastern United States, a grey deciduous honeysuckle shrub paired white flowers turning yellow; Japan, European twining honeysuckle with fragrant red and yellow-white flowers, evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers, a honeysuckle shrub of southern Russia to central Asia, cultivated Eurasian shrub with twin yellowish-white flowers and scarlet fruit, common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies, shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jellies, dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor, a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies, common North American shrub or small tree, any of various plants of the genus Polygala, tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed, large slow-growing evergreen shrub or small tree with multiple stems; extensively used for hedges or borders and topiary figures, any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover, small erect deciduous shrub having tough white wood and cathartic bark and fruit, bushy deciduous shrub with branches having thin wide corky longitudinal wings; brilliant red in autumn; northeastern Asia to central China, shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke, Old World shrub having large plumes of yellowish feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke, sweet-scented sumac of eastern America having ternate leaves and yellowish-green flowers in spikes resembling catkins followed by red hairy fruits, common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with waxy compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries, common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries, evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with spikes of reddish yellow flowers and glandular hairy fruits, deciduous shrubby tree or eastern North America with compound leaves that turn brilliant red in fall and dense panicles of greenish yellow flowers followed by crimson acidic berries, deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit, shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit, deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico, deciduous shrub of eastern Asia bearing decorative bright blue fruit, styrax of southwestern United States; a threatened species, perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels, deciduous climber with aerial roots having white to creamy flowers in fairly flat heads, deciduous shrub with creamy white flower clusters; eastern United States, deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue, deciduous shrub or small tree with pyramidal flower clusters, deciduous climber with aerial roots having large flat flower heads, California evergreen shrub having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers, woody climber of southeastern United States having white flowers in compound terminal clusters, any of various shrubs of the genus Deutzia having usually toothed opposite leaves and shredding bark and white or pink flowers in loose terminal clusters, large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes, cultivated European current bearing small edible red berries, widely cultivated current bearing edible black aromatic berries, garden currant bearing small white berries, aromatic Mediterranean shrub widely cultivated for its lilac flowers which are dried and used in sachets, shrubby greyish lavender of southwestern Europe having usually reddish-purple flowers, Mediterranean plant with pale purple flowers that yields spike lavender oil, any of various plants of the genus Phlomis; grown primarily for their dense whorls of lipped flowers and attractive foliage, a spreading subshrub of Mediterranean regions cultivated for dense axillary whorls of purple or yellow flowers, any of various plants of the genus Teucrium, any of several plants of the genus Trichostema having whorls of small blue flowers, plant bearing erect pungent conical red or yellow or purple fruits; sometimes grown as an ornamental, plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red, plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers, plant bearing small rounded usually pungent fruits, plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers, plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce, intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits, deciduous erect or spreading shrub with spiny branches and violet-purple flowers followed by orange-red berries; southeastern Europe to China, poisonous Old World spurge; adventive in America; seeds yield a purgative oil, not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun, an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States, African dwarf succulent perennial shrub with numerous slender drooping branches, common perennial United States spurge having showy white petallike bracts, annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk, Old World perennial having foliage resembling cypress; naturalized as a weed in the United States, tall European perennial naturalized and troublesome as a weed in eastern North America, much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America, tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers, showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru, poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla, European perennial herb with greenish yellow terminal flower clusters, wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States, European erect or depressed annual weedy spurge adventive in northeastern United States, Mexican shrub often cultivated for its scarlet-bracted flowers, small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra, somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts, an annual weed of northeastern North America with dentate leaves, cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca, South American plant with roots used as a vegetable and herbage used for stock feed, wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica, low tropical American shrub having powerful emetic properties, greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties, shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada, deciduous shrub of eastern and central United States having black berrylike fruit; golden-yellow in autumn, evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits, small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries, twining woody vine of Madagascar having thick dark waxy evergreen leaves and clusters of large fragrant waxy white flowers along the stems; widely cultivated in warm regions, a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems, all the plant life in a particular region or period, the remote outback of Australia; unpopulated desert country, the bush country of the interior of Australia, a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition, a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss, DISCLAIMER: These example sentences appear in various news sources and books to reflect the usage of the word. a lining for a hole, intended to insulate and protect from abrasion one or more conductors that pass through it. something resembling or suggesting this, as a thick, shaggy head of hair. A plain bearing, also known as a bushing, is a mechanical element used to reduce friction between rotating shafts and stationary support members. Last edited on Mar 07 1999. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves, European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac, South American shrub or small tree having long shining evergreen leaves and panicles of green or yellow flowers, small New Zealand broadleaf evergreen tree often cultivated in warm regions as an ornamental, (Old Testament) the bush that burned without being consumed and from which God spoke to Moses, low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base, a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments, shrubby deciduous tree of the Mediterranean region, thorny Eurasian shrub with dry woody winged fruit, any of various evergreen climbing shrubs of the genus Stephanotis having fragrant waxy flowers, deciduous shrub of eastern North America whose leaves turn scarlet in autumn and having racemes of yellow flowers followed by ellipsoid glossy red berries, upright deciduous European shrub widely naturalized in United States having clusters of juicy berries, compact deciduous shrub having persistent red berries; widespread in cultivation especially for hedges, hardy shrub of southeastern United States having clove-scented wood and fragrant red-brown flowers, straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers, evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United States having small hard berries thickly coated with white wax used for candles, deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries, either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep, semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch, prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled, thorny deep-rooted drought-resistant shrub native to southwestern United States and Mexico bearing pods rich in sugar and important as livestock feed; tends to form extensive thickets, mesquite of Gulf Coast and Caribbean Islands from Mexico to Venezuela, shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods, subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes, South African shrub having forked spines and plumlike fruit; frequently used as hedging, very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves, frangipani of India having an erect habit and conical form; grown in temple gardens, tall sparingly branched conical tree having large fragrant yellow flowers with white centers, East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents, chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers, common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America, unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico, bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark, any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage, handsome low saltbush of arid southwestern United States and Mexico having blue-green prickly-edged leaves often used for Christmas decoration, spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico, small Australian tree bearing edible fruit resembling the pomegranate, shrub or small tree of southern Florida to Central and South America, small Australian tree bearing edible dark purple fruit, prostrate spiny shrub of the Mediterranean region cultivated for its greenish flower buds which are pickled, perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome, tall branching subshrub of California and Mexico often cultivated for its silvery-blue foliage and large fragrant white flowers, any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs, perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum, any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium, any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium, aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia, any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing, pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits; source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo, any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches, musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads, bushy New Zealand shrub cultivated for its fragrant white flower heads, much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber, stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns, annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads, weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves, any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers, any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers, erect Old World perennial with faintly musk-scented foliage and white or pink flowers; adventive in United States, annual Old World plant with clusters of pink or white flowers; naturalized in United States, erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States, bushy herb of tropical Asia grown for its yellow or pink to scarlet blooms that resemble the hibiscus, tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States, any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers, any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea, a plant of the genus Callirhoe having palmately cleft leaves and white to red or purple flowers borne throughout the summer, East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms, small bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States; yields cotton with unusually long silky fibers, Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons, native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton, fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton, a rare mallow found only in Illinois resembling the common hollyhock and having pale rose-mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea, perennial of northwestern United States and western Canada resembling a hollyhock and having white or pink flowers, any of various plants of the genus Kosteletzya predominantly of coastal habitats; grown for their flowers that resemble hibiscus, shrub of coastal ranges of California and Baja California having hairy branches and spikes of numerous mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea, western Mediterranean annual having deep purple-red flowers subtended by 3 large cordate bracts, an American plant of the genus Malvastrum, any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers, tall coarse American herb having palmate leaves and numerous small white dioecious flowers; found wild in most alluvial soils of eastern and central United States, tall handsome perennial herb of southeastern United States having maplelike leaves and white flowers, herb widely distributed in tropics and subtropics used for forage and medicinally as a demulcent and having a fine soft bast stronger than jute; sometimes an aggressive weed, tropical American weed having pale yellow or orange flowers naturalized in southern United States, perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated, genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs of arid North and South America having pink or scarlet flowers and globose fruits, East Indian shrub often cultivated for its hairy leaves and orange-red flowers, any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute, South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes, Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously, shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers, any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering, wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States, erect to procumbent evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of sphagnum peat bogs and other wet acidic areas in northern Europe, evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning, small evergreen European shrubby tree bearing many-seeded scarlet berries that are edible but bland; of Ireland, southern Europe, Asia Minor, evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn, deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar, erect California shrub having leaves with heart-shaped lobes at the base, erect treelike shrub forming dense thickets and having drooping panicles of white or pink flowers and red berrylike drupes; California, erect openly branched California shrub whose twigs are woolly when young, small evergreen mat-forming shrub of southern Europe and Asia Minor having stiff stems and terminal clusters of small bell-shaped flowers, common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere, heath of mountains of western United States having bell-shaped white flowers, low straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple, slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds, creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil, low shrub of the eastern United States bearing shiny black edible fruit; best known of the huckleberries, huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit, creeping evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small shiny boxlike leaves and flavorless berries, a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers, laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath, North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock, small shrub with tiny evergreen leaves and pink or purple flowers; Alpine summits and high ground in Asia and Europe and United States, semi-prostrate evergreen herb of western United States, medium-sized rhododendron of Pacific coast of North America having large rosy brown-spotted flowers, late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers, shrub growing in swamps throughout the eastern United States and having small white to pinkish flowers resembling honeysuckle, any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors, small red-fruited trailing cranberry of Arctic and cool regions of the northern hemisphere, any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries, shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries, low-growing deciduous shrub of northeastern North America having flowers in compact racemes and bearing sweet dark blue berries, shrub of southeastern United States grown commercially especially for canning industry, low-growing tufted deciduous shrub of northern and alpine North America having pink to coral-red flowers followed by sweet blue berries, high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries, shrub of the eastern United States having shining evergreen leaves and bluish-black fruit, stiff bushy evergreen shrub of western North America having sour black berries and glossy green foliage used in floral arrangements, erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries, erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries, low deciduous shrub of the eastern United States bearing dark blue sweet berries, shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries, small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer, low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries, any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia, any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers, stout Australian shrub with narrow leaves crowded at ends of branches and terminal clusters of white or pink flowers, gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long, spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits, evergreen rambling yellow-flowered shrub of western China, deciduous rambling shrub widely cultivated for its winter-blooming yellow flowers, a climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea, East Indian evergreen vine cultivated for its profuse fragrant white flowers, eastern Asian shrub cultivated especially for its persistent foliage, fast-growing and tightly branched hybrid of Ligustrum ovalifolium and Ligustrum obtusifolium, evergreen shrub of Japan and Korea having small dark leaves and flowers in loose panicles; related to but smaller than Chinese privet, erect evergreen treelike shrub of China and Korea and Japan having acuminate leaves and flowers in long erect panicles; resembles Japanese privet, small deciduous shrub having graceful arching branches and luxuriant foliage, semi-evergreen Japanese shrub having malodorous flowers; used extensively for hedges because more likely to stay green that common privet, deciduous semi-evergreen shrub used for hedges, robust upright shrub of mountains of northern India having oblong-elliptic leaves and pale lilac or white malodorous flowers, central European upright shrub having elliptic leaves and upright clusters of lilac or deep violet flowers, small densely branching Asiatic shrub having lanceolate leaves and panicles of fragrant lilac flowers, small tree of Japan having narrow pointed leaves and creamy-white flowers, lilac of northern China having ovate leaves and profuse early summer rose-lilac flowers, large European lilac naturalized in North America having heart-shaped ovate leaves and large panicles of highly fragrant lilac or white flowers, common shrub of eastern North America having small yellow flowers after the leaves have fallen, fragrant shrub of lower Mississippi valley having very small flowers from midwinter to spring, erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit, deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits, deciduous shrubby tree of Europe and western Asia having grey leaves and small yellow fruits covered in silvery scales; sometimes spiny, any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum, shrublet of southwestern United States to Mexico having brilliant scarlet flowers, erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers, erect deciduous shrub or tree to 10 feet with maroon flowers; New Zealand, widely cultivated low evergreen shrub with dense clusters of fragrant pink to deep rose flowers, bushy Eurasian shrub with glossy leathery oblong leaves and yellow-green flowers, small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs, any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North America, any of numerous plants of the genus Hypericum having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves; traditionally gathered on St John's eve to ward off evil, compact white pubescent shrub of southwestern Europe having pink flowers, shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative, perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts, any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers, woody yellow-flowered perennial of southeastern United States, North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers, small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America, desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers, candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers, a strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared, source of e.g.