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n. - A low shrub.

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  • It is an evergreen climbing undershrub, having whitish green flowers, and grows readily from suckers.
  • It is an undershrub, the stem of which is compressed and angular below, and armed with prickles at the angles.
  • I took a botanical account of stock of our domains before the dew was off, and found that the ground-hemlock, or American yew, was the prevailing undershrub.
  • A barren fragment of undershrub, with opposite fleshy leaves with recurved margins.
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