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Noun: summer sweet
  1. Shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers
    "summer sweet filled the air with its fragrance";
    - sweet pepperbush, pepper bush, white alder, Clethra alnifolia

Derived forms: summer sweets

Type of: bush, shrub

Encyclopedia: Summer sweet