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leucothoe
[ loo-koth-oh-ee ]
noun
- any of various shrubs of the genus Leucothoe, of the heath family, having clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of leucothoe1
< New Latin (1834), after Latin Leucothoē a legendary princess turned into a fragrant bush by Apollo
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Example Sentences
She secretly followed him into the palace, and found him making love to Leucothoe.
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He had no thought for her, but he shed his brightest beams upon her sister the white Nymph Leucothoe.
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Little clouds of fragrance drifted through the air, as the wind swayed rows and rows of the transparent bells of the leucothoe.
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