Carolina allspice
- noun
- US
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especiero de Carolina
- In spring, the Carolina allspice produces clusters of beautiful reddish-brown flowers that fill the air with a clove-like scent.
Examples
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The Carolina allspice fills the spring air with a rich, spicy fragrance from its blossoms.
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Gardeners admire the Carolina allspice for its attractive, aromatic foliage and flowers.
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A mature Carolina allspice shrub can become a highlight in a shade garden.
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The Carolina allspice blooms beautifully in spring.
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I planted a Carolina allspice in my garden last year.
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The delightful fragrance of the Carolina allspice makes it a popular choice among landscapers for gardens and parks.
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Known for its unique aroma, the Carolina allspice shrub is often used to enhance the beauty of shaded outdoor spaces.
Synonyms
A hardy shrub from the southeastern United States with reddish brown flowers that smell like cloves
A hardy shrub with clove-scented wood and fragrant reddish-brown flowers
A tough bush from the southeast United States with wood that smells like cloves and reddish brown fragrant flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
Carolina + allspice
The noun phrase is a straightforward place-name + noun combination: 'Carolina' (a region) modifies 'allspice', so its meaning as a variety or local form of allspice is directly inferable from the constituents. Naming varieties by origin is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand this refers to an allspice associated with Carolina.
Etymology
The name Carolina allspice comes from where the shrub grows and how it smells. People in the Carolina area thought the wood and flowers smelled like 'cloves', so they called it allspice, and adding Carolina shows its home, which is why the name describes a spicy, fragrant shrub.
