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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL. Named in honor of

Peter

Kalm

, a Swedish botanist.]

(Bot.)

A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also

mountain laurel

ivy bush

lamb kill

calico bush

, etc.

Noun.

The name of a genus of evergreen shrubs, natives of N. America, called laurel, ivy-bush, calico-bush, &c.