Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deciduous shrub (Viburnum alnifolium or V. lantanoides) of eastern North America, having flat clusters of white flowers with the marginal flowers larger than the others.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A low bush (Viburnum lantanoidcs) found in the northern United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A low bush (
Viburnum lantanoides ) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called alsoshinhopple .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A low
bush ,Viburnum lantanoides, having long,straggling branches and pretty flowers, found in the Northern United States.
Etymologies
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hobble + bush
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Examples
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Panting in exhaustion, Kahlan had to dance backward through the snarl of hobblebush stitched through with thorny blackberry to dodge the swing of the sword.
Men Don't Leave Me 2010
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Silver birch and hobblebush grew thick, sprouting from the rocky walls, smooth-skinned roots twisting through the stones like fingers clawing at the earth.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
chained_bear commented on the word hobblebush
"The far shore was dark, thick with tupelo, alder, and hobblebush."
—Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone (New York: Delacorte Press, 2009), 380
December 17, 2009