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Yaupon

Yaupon \Yau"pon\, n. (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 also South-Sea tea. [Written also yapon, youpon, and yupon.]

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yaupon

n. 1 The yaupon holly, (taxlink Ilex vomitoria species noshow=1), an evergreen holly shrub with white flowers and red or yellow berries, found in the southeastern United States. 2 A tea-like drink, "black drink", brewed from the leaves of this holly (or, sometimes, (taxlink Ilex cassine species noshow=1)).

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Usage examples of "yaupon".

Roger pushed through a tangle of yaupon and redbud, with Ian after him, and emerged onto the bank of the small creek that paralleled the trail here.

We passed through dense flats of turkey oak and slash pine and yaupon, through open barrens of wire grass and saw grass, until finally, in a place where wax myrtle thickets hemmed in the road to left and right, the horse slowed and walked, blowing hard, head down.

Germain and Jemmy were both crying, Joan was shrieking her head off in the wood, and I dropped the bucket and crawled madly for shelter behind a yaupon bush.

He nosed through overgrown clumps of huckleberry and yaupon until he found the sort of smaller track he was looking for.

Wolf roused, wandered out from under the yaupon bushes that fringed the veranda, and sniffed her tires thoroughly.

Beyond the screen of hawthorn, holly, myrtle, yaupon, and sawvines, Wash caught occasional glimpses of huge tree trunks rising from ages-deep leaf-mould that was too shaded to support low-growing plants.

Instead, he ducked beneath a thicket of yaupon bushes that seemed to form a solid wall, and Wash had to bend double to follow him.