单词 | squawbush |
释义 | squawbush in British English (ˈskwɔːˌbʊʃ) noun informal a name given to various N American shrubs, such as Rhus trilobata, a deciduous shrub with an unpleasant scent squawbush in American English (ˈskwɔˌbuʃ) noun a rank-smelling, sprawling shrub, Rhus trilobata malacophylla, of the cashew family, native to California, having spikes of greenish flowers Word origin [1825–35, Amer.; squaw + bush1, so called from its use by Native Americans]This word is first recorded in the period 1825–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: archaic, breakdown, cliché, cross section, individualism |
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