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n. - North temperate bog shrub with evergreen growth and small white cylindrical flowers; Stiff fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib.

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  • A sparse thicket of scrub oak and leatherleaf covered the outer slopes.
  • Well yes, there is a real flower, unfazed by the cold, the leatherleaf Mahonia, Mahonia bealei.
  • The road ran through a thicket here, nearly a small forest of oak and elm, pine and leatherleaf.
  • The rest was scrub brush, little as much as waist-high, dotted with leatherleaf and paperbark and the occasional oak.
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