Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
toyon .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia
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We are rightfully hated and reviled in Iraq ~ and it is taking its psychological tollon our soldiers and the American public ~ the flies have conquered the flypaper.
END THE OCCUPATION / THE FLIES HAVE CONQUERED THE FLYPAPER 2007
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It takes a big tollon your emotions and on your everyday life.
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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Yet it does not take an ethicist or a clergy member to recognize that lying exacts a tollon us as individuals, on our families and communities, and on society at large.
NPR Topics: News 2009
whichbe commented on the word tollon
The primary element that makes up a tollbooth.
October 15, 2008