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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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