Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several shrubs of the genus Ceanothus (C. integerrimus, C. incanus, and C. velutinus) which furnish shelter and browsing for deer.
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Examples
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We take our choice today between finding deer-brush and digging for amole, because the mock oranges aren't ripe enough to be nice and soapy yet.
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So together they went to the deer-brush and gathered a bunch of flowers that Linda bound together with some wiry desert grass and fastened to her belt.
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I've got the deer-brush spotted, and we'll pass an amole before we go very far.
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So together they went to the deer-brush and gathered a bunch of flowers that Linda bound together with some wiry desert grass and fastened to her belt.
Her Father's Daughter Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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I've got the deer-brush spotted, and we'll pass an amole before we go very far.
Her Father's Daughter Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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We take our choice today between finding deer-brush and digging for amole, because the mock oranges aren't ripe enough to be nice and soapy yet.
Her Father's Daughter Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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