yaupon
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From a Catawba word, most likely yap, yop, yą (“tree”), with the second element being either a diminutive suffix[2] or pą (“leaf”) (resulting in the compound yąpą); alternatively, perhaps directly from a longer form of the word for leaf, 'yap'hâ.[3]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈjoʊˌpɑn/, /ˈjuˌpɑn/, /ˈjɔˌpɑn/
Noun[edit]
yaupon (countable and uncountable, plural yaupons)
- The yaupon holly, Ilex vomitoria, an evergreen holly shrub with white flowers and red or yellow berries, found in the south-eastern United States.
- 2002, Connie C. Barlow, The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms:
- 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 tea-like drink, "black drink", brewed from the leaves of this holly (or, sometimes, Ilex cassine).
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References[edit]
- ^ yaupon, yopon, youpon, yupon at Google Ngram Viewer
- ^ Frederick Webb Hodge, Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico: N-Z (1912): The name is from Catawba yopun [yopún], a diminutive of yop, 'tree,' 'shrub.'
- ^ W. R. Gerard, Plant Names of Indian Origin, V., in Garden and Forest, volume 9 (1896)