snowbrush

noun

snow·​brush ˈsnō-ˌbrəsh How to pronounce snowbrush (audio)
: 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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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1923, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of snowbrush was circa 1923

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“Snowbrush.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snowbrush. Accessed 24 Mar. 2023.

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