sugarbush
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- noun
- South African
- In South Africa, the sugarbush blooms with vibrant colors, providing nectar that is essential for local wildlife.
Examples
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The sugarbush is known for its striking large flowers that attract many birds and insects.
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During spring, the sugarbush fills the landscape with its beautiful, nectar-rich blossoms.
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The WRB found that Sugarbush's economic decline was creating an impact that was substantially and adversely affecting the economy of several towns in the Mad River Valley.
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The Sugarbush Resort in Warren, Vermont, whose snowmaking battle is one of the cases studied in this Comment, uses approximately 380 million gallons of water each year in order to make sufficient snow to cover its slopes.
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Further, the WRB found that because Vermont had adopted no specific policy as to minimum streamflow, Sugarbush had met its burden by demonstrating the public benefits that would derive from expanded snowmaking and development.
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Sugarbush proposed to build a 9.6-acre pond, attached by pipes to the river, which would withdraw water only when the river was flowing at a level of 0.50 cubic feet per second per square mile (csm) or more.
Academic text (1996)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sugarbush is simply sugar + bush and was given to the South African shrub because its large flowers make very sweet nectar, almost like 'sugar', which attracts birds and insects. So the name helps you remember that this plant is a bush with sweet, sugary flowers.