Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An evergreen shrub (Heteromeles arbutifolia) in the rose family, native to California and Baja California, having leathery leaves, small white flowers in large panicles, and red berrylike fruit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Californian holly, Hetero-meles arbutifolia. Also
tollon .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a chiefly Californian ornamental
evergreen shrub (Heteromelesarbutifolia ) of therose family havingwhite flowers succeeded byred berries
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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mexicans were born here, among the smoky bouquets of the toyon shrub, made love on hills of elderberry, honeysuckle, and fistfuls of lilac fiesta flowers, married each other by a ring of deodar cedars, grew old walking the long, open fields of sage scrub and giant wild rye, and died in ancient forests of pine and eucalyptus.
The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010
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Mexicans were born here, among the smoky bouquets of the toyon shrub, made love on hills of elderberry, honeysuckle, and fistfuls of lilac fiesta flowers, married each other by a ring of deodar cedars, grew old walking the long, open fields of sage scrub and giant wild rye, and died in ancient forests of pine and eucalyptus.
The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010
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Mexicans were born here, among the smoky bouquets of the toyon shrub, made love on hills of elderberry, honeysuckle, and fistfuls of lilac fiesta flowers, married each other by a ring of deodar cedars, grew old walking the long, open fields of sage scrub and giant wild rye, and died in ancient forests of pine and eucalyptus.
The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010
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Mexicans were born here, among the smoky bouquets of the toyon shrub, made love on hills of elderberry, honeysuckle, and fistfuls of lilac fiesta flowers, married each other by a ring of deodar cedars, grew old walking the long, open fields of sage scrub and giant wild rye, and died in ancient forests of pine and eucalyptus.
The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010
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A ginko, and a California buckeye, to begin with, and in the back a bigleaf maple, a fig, and a toyon.
readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2006
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All lower branches had been cut from the toyon tree, leaving protrusions long enough for a determined person to get a foothold and climb the tree.
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I found a trash receptacle under the red eucalyptus, rolled it to the toyon, upended it, held onto the tree, and climbed on top.
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I found a trash receptacle under the red eucalyptus, rolled it to the toyon, upended it, held onto the tree, and climbed on top.
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I had seen nothing on his face or clothes under that toyon tree to suggest a fight, or past fights.
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He was hanging from a low branch of a native toyon tree in Alameda Park, between an Australian red eucalyptus and a Canary Island palm.
fbharjo commented on the word toyon
Christmasberry
December 20, 2009
qms commented on the word toyon
The season's come to make us merry
Let wassail flow and loved ones serry!
Hang tokens of joy on
The branches of toyon
And dance around the Christmas berry!
December 25, 2015