snowball
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- noun
- /ˈsnoʊˌbɔl/
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Abronia
- But I felt uneasy when Buster returned from Fazio's with a dripping Pepsi bottle in each hand and came up the slope, bent over, and crawled beneath the snowball branches into the little circle where I was sitting.
Examples
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Snowball bushes flanked either side of the cement stoop, and red geraniums had been evenly spaced the length of the porch.
Fiction book (2001) -
This is some snowball Bush by Burnham in fall color.
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Of this altogether different place where our mother is a snowball bush, here my brother will be an icicle tree whose branches, even in summer, blossom down to the tiniest twig in a coat of ice that glitters like shattered glass in the sunshine.
Fiction book (1996) -
The snowball bush in my garden blooms beautifully with fragrant white flowers every spring.
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Walking through the desert, we spotted a stunning snowball plant thriving amidst the sand.
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In warm climates, the snowball plant adds a lovely touch of color with its trumpet-shaped blossoms.
Synonyms
A plant with sweet-smelling white trumpet-shaped flowers that grows in sandy dry places
Idioms
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Snowball for the plant comes from its round, white flowers that look like balls of snow, so gardeners gave it that name. So a snowball plant is named because its flowers look like 'balls of snow'.