ceanothus

/see-uh-noh-thuhs/US // ˌsi əˈnoʊ θəs //UK // (ˌsiːəˈnəʊθəs) //

山茱萸,山楂树,山竹,山楂属植物

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural ce·a·no·thus·es.
- : any North American shrub or small tree of the largely western genus Ceanothus, having clusters of small white or blue flowers.

The old foreground of buckeye and odorous ceanothus was gone.
The azaleas were already budding, the ceanothus getting ready its lilac livery for spring.
Another ceanothus, commonly called mountain birch, is often found.
The genus Ceanothus is well known from the beautiful C. azureus.
It is our holly, as the Ceanothus is our lilac, and the poison-oak is our autumn-red sumac.