mezereon

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_Daphne mezereum_, the mezereon -- in Selborne Hanger among the shrubs, at the south-east end above the cottages.

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  1. noun A poisonous Eurasian ornamental shrub (Daphne mezereum) having fragrant lilac-purple flowers and small scarlet fruit.
  2. noun The dried bark of this plant, formerly used externally as a vesicant and internally for arthritis.

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  • The little gardens were bright with daffodils, mezereon, and flowering currant To the girls, somewhat tired and decidedly hungry, the main focus of the village was a long iron post which stretched out over the street and supported a rudely-painted sign of a bird, whose species might have been a puzzle to an ornithologist but for the words "Pelican Inn" that appeared beneath it In the long-ago days before railroads, the little hostelry had been a stopping-place for stage-coaches, and a wooden board still set forth that it supplied "Posting in all its branches." —  A Popular Schoolgirl
  • They then parade the streets with a palm, or its substitute, a large tree of the willow kind (_Salix caprea_), in blossom, ornamented with daffodils, mezereon, and box-tree. —  Miscellanea
  • _Daphne mezereum_, the mezereon -- in Selborne Hanger among the shrubs, at the south-east end above the cottages. —  The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
  • American mezereon, leather-wood. —  Canadian Crusoes
  • The little gardens were bright with daffodils, mezereon, and flowering currant. —  A Popular Schoolgirl
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  1. Middle English mizerion, from Medieval Latin mezereon, from Arabic māzaryūn, of Persian origin.

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  1. from French mézéréon = Spanish mezereon, from Arabic and Persian māzariyūn, the camellia.
 

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/məˈzirəɑn/
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