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snowbrush

noun
snow·​brush | \ ˈsnō-ˌbrəsh How to pronounce snowbrush (audio) \

Definition of snowbrush

: a spreading white-flowered western North American shrub (Ceanothus velutinus) of the buckthorn family

Examples of snowbrush in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

 Four years after logging, the wasteland portrayed in the photo was thick with manzanita bushes, raspberries, snowbrush, bracken fern, and native blackberries. — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, "Why does this famous protector of trees now want to cut some down?," 5 Oct. 2017

First Known Use of snowbrush

circa 1923, in the meaning defined above

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