minniebush

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A shrub, Menziesia pilosa, of the heath family, found in mountain woods from Pennsylvania to Georgia. It bears elliptical or obovate leaves, and greenish-purple urn-shaped flowers in terminal drooping umbels.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A low shrub (Menziesia pilosa) of the eastern U. S. with downy twigs.

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• noun low shrub of the eastern United States with downy twigs
• noun low shrub of the eastern United States with downy twigs