The Collaborative International Dictionary
Allspice \All"spice`\, n. The berry of the pimento ( Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice ( Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice ( Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) The common spicebush, ''Lindera benzoin'', whose leaves have a distinctive strong citrusy aroma.
WordNet
n. deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries [syn: spice bush, American spicebush, Benjamin bush, Lindera benzoin, Benzoin odoriferum]
straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers [syn: California allspice, Calycanthus occidentalis]
Usage examples of "spicebush".
She rolled over and tried for the tenth time to find a spot where a root of their sheltering spicebush would not dig into her flesh.
Seyganko came to the western shore of the Lake of Death on the night that Conan sat keeping watch beside the spicebush where Valeria slept.
Behind it was a cluster of blackish-red, forbidding rocks, casting purple shadows on the sand, turning the omnipresent fluff of spicebush to a lavender shadow on the barren space.
While he waited he regarded a spicebush just on the other side of the fence, ice beginning to cling to the red berries.
The sunlight filters through lacy hemlock needles and we stretch out on our backs, chewing the tasty twigs of a spicebush and silently admiring the forest.
Then slowly, like a snail crawling up a spicebush, the stalk of uncertainty began to bend with the weight of joy.
The raccoons had already vanished into the spicebushes fringing the base of the hill, though Cashel caught a glimpse of a ringed tail.
Tiger swallowtail, spicebush swallowtail, greater frittilary, giant sulphur, black swallowtail, red-spotted purple, and painted lady.