from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A deciduous shrub (Viburnum alnifolium) of eastern North America, having flat clusters of white flowers with the marginal flowers larger than the others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A low bush, Viburnum lantanoides, having long, straggling branches and pretty flowers, found in the Northern United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A low bush (Viburnum lantanoidcs) found in the northern United States.
Panting in exhaustion, Kahlan had to dance backward through the snarl of hobblebush stitched through with thorny blackberry to dodge the swing of the sword.
Silver birch and hobblebush grew thick, sprouting from the rocky walls, smooth-skinned roots twisting through the stones like fingers clawing at the earth.