leucothoe

[ loo-koth-oh-ee ]

noun

1. any of various shrubs of the genus Leucothoe, of the heath family, having clusters of white or pinkish flowers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of leucothoe¹

< New Latin (1834), after Latin Leucothoē a legendary princess turned into a fragrant bush by Apollo

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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