smoke tree
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Tweet n. Either of two deciduous shrubs or small trees, Cotinus obovatus, of the southern United States, or C. coggygria, native to Eurasia and widely cultivated elsewhere, having plumose flower clusters. [From the resemblance of the flower clusters to puffs of smoke.] |
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