sweet shrub

noun

Carolina allspice.

Origin of sweet shrub

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

Words nearby sweet shrub

sweet pepperbush, sweet potato, sweet roll, sweet scabious, sweet shop, sweet shrub, sweet sorghum, sweet spirit of nitre, sweet spot, sweet talk, sweet tooth

Example sentences from the Web for sweet shrub

  • She went and stood at her window, drawing in deep breaths of rain-freshened air, dense with sweet-shrub and honeysuckle.

    Shadows of Flames |Amelie Rives

  • There was a delicious odor of sweet-shrub in the air, and the fruity fragrance of the dark, wild wake-robin underfoot.

    The Mountain Girl |Payne Erskine