Hanukkah bush n. a small tree decorated by some (secular) Jews at the time of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, in imitation of the Yule or Christmas tree. Editorial Note: Alexander Tille in 1892 wrote in the article “German Christmas and the Christmas-Tree” in the journal Folklore (July 1892, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 170) that in Germany “the Christmas-tree has long since broken through the barrier of different creeds, and many Jewish families have adopted it to celebrate Yuletide.” (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
The Texas Folklore Society’s book The Best of Texas Folk and Folklore, 1916-1954 (Bookshop|Amazon) offers some wonderful browsing, including this saying to describe an environment that’s too loud: You can’t hear your ears in this place...
Rich in Jackson, Wyoming, is searching for a word for using natural objects such as a rocks, driftwood, or antlers, as decoration. He considered the German Natur, “nature,” and Kunst, “art,” but it didn’t quite fit...
Chanukah is the correct spelling for the jewish holiday, get it right
No Anglophone dictionary-maker agrees with you about what is “correct.” Hannukah is the more common, most-often preferred form. Either one is a valid and acceptable transliteration of the Hebrew characters ×—× ×›×” or ×—× ×•×›×”.