yaupon

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Definition of yaupon in English English dictionary: The yaupon holly, Ilex vomitoria, an evergreen holly shrub with white flowers and red or yellow berries, found in the southeastern United States
Yaupon is evergreen like the American holly and the familiar hollies of Christmas decorations, but the leaves of yaupon are small and smooth-edged rather than prickly. Easy to chew and blandly tasty, they would not stand out in a tossed salad.; A shrub (Ilex Cassine) of the Holly family, native from Virginia to Florida; Called also South-Sea tea; {i} evergreen holly native of southeast United States with smooth oval leaves and red or yellow fruit; tea made from the dried leaves of the yaupon shrub; 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
yaupon holly: an evergreen shrub

yaupon

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yau·pon

yôpın

/ˈyôpən/ /ˈjɔːpən/

() From the Catawba word yąpą, from yą (wood, tree) + pą (leaf).

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