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noun

Wahoo n. Any of various American trees or shrubs; specif.:

(a)

A certain shrub (Evonymus atropurpureus) having purple capsules which in dehiscence expose the scarlet-ariled seeds; called also burning bush.

(b)

Cascara buckthorn.

(c)

Basswood.

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... Below ran a dazzling border of shrubs—the sumac, which does not wait for the coming of the frost king to put on its royal livery; the sassafras already gleaming with touches of fire; the wild grape as red as the reddest wine, and rioting over all the rich green; the bright wahoo with its graceful clusters of flame-colored berries overrunning its soberer neighbors; the hazel, the pawpaw, the dog-wood, the red-bud, the spice-wood, the sweet-strife, the angelica. On the west the ...

— Round Anvil Rock - A Romance • Nancy Huston Banks

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Words linked to "Wahoo" : Euonymus atropurpureus, Euonymus americanus, Euonymus, genus Euonymus, Acanthocybium solandri, strawberry bush, burning bush, shrub