Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small tree (Ilex cassine) of the southeast United States, having red or sometimes orange to yellow fruit and leathery, dark green leaves. Also called cassina.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small evergreen tree, Ilex Dahoon, of the southern United States, allied to the holly, and sometimes called the dahoon holly. The wood is white and soft, but close-grained.
GNU Webster's 1913
- An evergreen shrub or small tree (Ilex cassine) of the southern United States, bearing red drupes and having soft, white, close-grained wood; -- called also
dahoon holly .
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The leaves of the Ilex opaca, like the Ilex dahoon and Ilex cassina, are used as substitutes for green tea.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dahoon’.
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Words of indeterminate origin
Words of which the origin is unknown.
(i.e. we don't know who coined them and they probably aren't derived from another language like Latin)fuddle, conundrum, grouse, scad, pod, culvert, dude, dahoon, bloke, hootenanny, gib, malarky and 5 more...
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-oons (once of more than one syllable)
Originally this list was to contain multisyllabic words that end in "oon," but as you can see from the comments, all hell broke loose.
doubloon, poltroon, spittoon, patroon, dragoon, bassoon, platoon, typhoon, rangoon, maroon, pontoon, monsoon and 96 more...
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A Second Helping of Random Palavery
A continuation of my first list, "A Serving of Random Palavery". Like the first, this list contains words that catch my attention, ring happily in my ears, are fun to speak, or are interesting to ...
bouffoir, mossberry, webisode, barquette, brochidodromous, festooned brochid..., eucamptodromy, eucamptodromous, loment, keenings, moss-trooper, mosstrooping and 138 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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Trees!
mahogany, sequoia, balsa, sandalwood, tamarind, balsam, eucalyptus, birch, willow, buttonwood, evergreen, loblolly and 501 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "... and where the sun poked through, thick grass sparng up knee-high and the prickly leaves of dahoon caught at him as he passed."
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 1039 Jan 28, 2010
hernesheir (n): evergreen shrub or small holly species in the American South. Also dahoon holly. Jan 9, 2009