Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants, natural order Ericaceœ, natives of North and South America and Madeira.
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- noun Any of the
genus Clethra of floweringshrubs or smalltrees bearingflowers inclusters .
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- noun type and sole genus of the Clethraceae; deciduous shrubs or small trees: white alder, summer-sweet
Etymologies
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Examples
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Japanese clethra Clethra barbinervis and anise magnolia Magnolia salicifolia are common decorative understorey trees.
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When June comes, -- when the clethra is heaped with its bee-beloved blossoms, and the grass is green and bright as never again in the year, then the arethusa is to be sought.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various
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She must walk among the alder bushes, hardly taller than her outstretched hand, and pluck blossoms from the flowering amorpha, althea, clethra and climbing rose.
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I have had the wild azalea live and bloom in its new setting, year after year; and the clethra, donning its white August dress as if at home.
Gardening by Myself 1872
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The fair clethra and the sweet clematis had ended their short reign and were gone, and high-coloured sumachs flamed out in insurrection.
Say and Seal, Volume I Susan Warner 1852
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Spring pruning stimulates vigorous new growth and greater flower production for butterfly bush, sweet pepperbush (clethra), "Peegee" and "Annabelle" hydrangea.
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