WordNet
pepper bush
n. shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers [syn: sweet pepperbush, summer sweet, white alder, Clethra alnifolia]
Usage examples of "pepper bush".
Ripping off the sheet, he threw both it and the pencil into a pepper bush and scowled fiercely at a crow that had settled on the branch of a dead tree near-by.