Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An evergreen holly (Ilex vomitoria) of the southeast United States, having lustrous red or sometimes yellow fruit, whose dried leaves are used to make a bitter tea. Also called cassina.
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- n. The yaupon holly, Ilex vomitoria, an evergreen holly shrub with white flowers and red or yellow berries, found in the southeastern United States.
- n. A tea-like drink, "black drink", brewed from the leaves of this holly (or, sometimes, Ilex cassine).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A shrub (Ilex Cassine) of the Holly family, native from Virginia to Florida. The smooth elliptical leaves are used as a substitute for tea, and were formerly used in preparing the black drink of the Indians of North Carolina. Called also South-Sea tea.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as yapon.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We plant, use feeders and even create deer trails through the thick yaupon bushes. without creating trails the brush can be so thick a rabbit couldn't get through it much less a deer.
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The grizzled leader hunched like a porcupine and peered through a screen of yaupon leaves, the crossbow held low before him.
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Ronnie's boss had sent him over to clear out some of the thick yaupon and gall berry bushes around the house to give our longleaf pines a fighting chance.
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A thick understory of yaupon and eastern redcedar occurs in some parts.
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The maritime forests include live oak, laurel oak, loblolly pine, red cedar, yaupon holly, wax myrtle, dwarf palmetto, with cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto) in the south.
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Other plants found commonly within the reserve include Spanish moss, resurrection fern, prickly pear, saw palmetto, sabal palmetto, yaupon holly, red cedar, smilax and sweet grass.
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The house went up like a parcel of brittle old love letters, the flames growing hotter and redder, red as yaupon berries, red as lung blood.
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Onto this green emptiness houses as awe-inspiring as the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus would appear in groves of oak and yaupon.
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His name in Hitchiti was As-se-se-he-ho-lar or Asiyahola, which is what the Seminoles called the Black Drink, the sacramental tea brewed out of holly and yaupon leaves.
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We were only there three years so my own garden was still young, although we were loaded with pine trees and yaupon hollies.
chained_bear commented on the word yaupon
"There was a grunting somewhere near; a small pig burst out of a patch of yaupon and crossed his path, heading to the left."
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 1062
January 29, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word yaupon
cf. black drink, holly
January 12, 2009