Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small evergreen holly tree (Ilex vomitoria) chiefly of the southeast United States, having red or sometimes yellow fruit and glossy leaves formerly used to make a bitter tea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
yapon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) 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 alsoSouth-Sea tea .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The yaupon holly, Ilex vomitoria, an evergreen holly shrub with white flowers and red or yellow berries, found in the southeastern United States.
- noun A
tea -like drink, "black drink ", brewed from the leaves of this holly (or, sometimes, Ilex cassine).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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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.
Tenderness Elizabeth Westmark 2011
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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.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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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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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.
Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, Georgia 2008
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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.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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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.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
hernesheir commented on the word yaupon
cf. black drink, holly
January 12, 2009
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