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- noun Plural form of
aucuba .
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Examples
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They came in from the plantations where since the early June daybreak Squire Willyams's foresters and gardeners had been cutting young larches, firs, laurels, aucubas.
Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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A large number of broad-leaved evergreen shrubs thrive in the South, such as: fetter bush, _Andromeda floribunda_ (A); some of the palms, as palmettoes (A) and chamærops; cycas and zamia (A) far South; _Abelia grandiflora; _ strawberry tree, _Arbutus Unedo; _ ardisias and aucubas, both grown under glass in the North; azaleas and rhododendrons (not only
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