A bush or shrub believed or used in folk medicine to treat fever; any plant with fever-reducing properties or reputation.
Compound of 'fever' + 'bush.' Folk botanical naming practices created dozens of 'fever-' plants based on traditional medicinal use or appearance.
Colonial settlers learned fever treatments from indigenous peoples, but often renamed the plants with English 'fever-' compound words, creating a whole lost vocabulary of now-forgotten remedies.
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