单词 | sticker bush |
释义 | > as lemmassticker bush sticker bush n. U.S. colloquial and regional any of various plants or shrubs having thorns, burrs, etc., that prick or cling to clothing or animal fur. ΚΠ 1874 Proc. & Trans. Nova Scotian Inst. Nat. Sci. 3 276 Y[ucca] Gloriosa... Southern States of America. ‘Sticker bush.’ ‘Spanish bayonet.’ 1907 C. Johnson Highways & Byways Pacific Coast 212 The hens..often stole nests off in the manzanita shrubs and thorny ‘sticker bushes’. 1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life iv. i. 328 I began walking to him through a morass of reeds and stickerbushes. 2012 Seventeen Mar. 87/3 At the bottom there were sticker bushes with a four-layered barbwire fence behind them. < as lemmas |
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