sugar bush
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See also: sugarbush
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sugar bush (plural sugar bushes)
- An evergreen shrub found in the southwestern United States of America, Rhus ovata.
- (Canada, US) A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.
- Alternative form: sugarbush
- 1851, Executive Documents, v 1, n 1, Washington DC: United States Senate, p 93:
- The lake abounds with the choicest species of fish, and in the vicinity are found sugar bushes and rice fields.