steeplebush

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Etymology[edit]

steeple +‎ bush

Noun[edit]

steeplebush (usually uncountable, plural steeplebushes)

  1. A plant with narrow pyramidal clusters of flowers and a dense woolly tomentum.
    • 2007 August 8, Andy Newman, “In Case of Apocalypse Later, a Plan to Ensure America’s Regreening”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      They passed many species they had already collected for the Millennium project — maple-leaved vibernum, steeplebush with spiky stalks of tiny pink flowers, black birch — as well as a particularly impressive specimen of that quintessential Staten Island forest dweller, Automobilius burnedouticus.
    1. Spiraea tomentosa, of eastern North American
      Synonym: hardhack
    2. Spiraea douglasii, of western North America
      Synonyms: rose spirea, Douglas spirea, Menzies' spirea, hardhack, hardhack steeplebush

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