snowbrush

noun

snow·brush ˈsnō-ˌbrəsh

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

Example Sentences

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, 5 Oct. 2017

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