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gallbush en · NOUN

Etymology

From gall + bush.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The large gallberry plant (Ilex coriacea).
    • Water stood in the ditch the color of tea; it made a dark, mysterious mirror for the gallbush and towering cane. 1955, Fran Martin, Pirate Island, page 135:
    • Byrd is mistaken in identifying the gallbush as a buckthorn; as noted above, it is actually a North American species of holly (Ilex cariacea). 2013, Kevin Joel Berland, The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover, page 266:
    • It conjured up a vista of arid wastes, of thorn and gallbush, of sharp-toothed prowling fands, of blood-seeking sting-whiffles that dropped noiseless from the sky to paralyze and feed upon their victims. 2018, Matthew Hughes, Fools Errant: