How to Use spicebush in a Sentence

spicebush

noun

• Bost wipes his face with spicebush leaves, a natural repellent for a cloud of gnats.
  — Robert Langellier, National Geographic, 24 June 2019
• Some shrubs grow well in dry shade, such as the native spicebush (Lindera benzoin) and bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera).
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2020
• Next, the dogwoods, serviceberries and spicebush leaf out, catching a fleeting bit of spring sun before they are blanketed in shade for the rest of the growing season.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 13 Nov. 2020
• State Forester David Arnold says in a news release that sassafras and spicebush are important ecological species in Tennessee.
  — USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2019
• But in April, long before most plants begin leafing out, the spicebush erupts in delicate yellow pompoms of flower, writes Susan Brownstein.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 14 July 2022
• Laurel wilt is transmitted by the wood-boring redbay ambrosia beetle and can affect a range of plants, including sassafras and spicebush.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2020
• Plants that flower in March include willows, serviceberry and spicebush.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2020
• As with many fruiting shrubs, spicebush is insect-pollinated.
  — Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com, 20 Jan. 2022
• Shrubs include spicebush, blueberry, viburnum, New Jersey tea, meadowsweet spirea and dogwood (redosier, silky, gray, and pagoda).
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2022
• If there are wild spicebush nearby, perhaps the weather wasn’t cooperative.
  — Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com, 20 Jan. 2022
• This 94-proof gin was copper pot distilled without chill filtration and features wild foraged Kentucky botanicals including Kentucky juniper and spicebush.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2022
• Prospect Park in May is a commotion of beauty: meadows and dense rambles, hills and hollows, everything covered in chokeberries, spicebush, violets, flowering hawthorns, magnolias and lindens.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
• The spicebush is a native species that produces four different kinds of seasonings whether its flowers, twigs, berries or leaves.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2025
• On the right, a wood thrush is perched on the branch of a spicebush while a spicebush swallowtail flies overhead.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
• In addition to being food for birds, perhaps the berries of the spicebush are food for thought.
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 12 July 2022