noun
aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America
• Syn: ↑genus Lindera
• Hypernyms: ↑magnoliid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Lauraceae, ↑family Lauraceae, ↑laurel family
• Member Meronyms: ↑spicebush, ↑spice bush, ↑American spicebush, ↑Benjamin bush, ↑Lindera benzoin, ↑Benzoin odoriferum
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\\ˈlindərə\ nounUsage: capitalized
: a small genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs (family Lauraceae) that are native to Asia and No. America and sometimes cultivated as ornamentals with small yellow flowers in nearly sessile axillary clusters — see spicebush
Useful english dictionary. 2012.