Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deciduous shrub or small tree (Ilex verticillata), the most widespread of North American hollies, growing in many variable forms from eastern Canada south to Texas and Florida and having bright red berries.
- noun Any of several other North American hollies, especially Ilex laevigata, having red berries.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of several shrubs of the genus Ilex, belonging to the section (once genus) Prinos, growing in eastern North America.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A species of
holly native to theUnited States andCanada and producing redberries , Ilex verticillata. - noun The fruit of this plant.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States
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Examples
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I am not familiar with the term winterberry – do you know the Latin name ?
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Other seasonal berries include ilex winterberry, privet and, yes, holly.
Side-Table Sparkle 2011
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Their champs include a small 14-foot-tall winterberry tree and a big water tupelo with a trunk 39½ feet in circumference.
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A few years ago, I went to a Christmas house tour in a nearby town and several homeowners had decorated their front porches with tall containers filled with white pine boughs and branches of winterberry; very festive!
My favorite winter shrub: Winterberry « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009
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Their champs include a small 14-foot-tall winterberry tree and a big water tupelo with a trunk 39½ feet in circumference.
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Some appropriate shrubs are summersweet, Virginia sweetspire, southern bayberry and winterberry holly.
Green Scene: Some ideas for an environmentally friendly landscape 2011
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Using some of my winterberry branches, I made this wreath.
Weekend garden cleanup uncovers my winterberry « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2008
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Anyway, while I was out there messing around I saw that my winterberry shrubs were in full berry and quite glorious.
Weekend garden cleanup uncovers my winterberry « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2008
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The mockingbirds have been at the winterberry hollies, more than half the berries are gone, but they fly away every time I try to get a photo taken of them.
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But you can find the quintessential winterberry wreath everywhere this time of year.
Weekend garden cleanup uncovers my winterberry « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2008
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