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toyon

[ toi-on, -ohn ]

  1. an evergreen, rosaceous shrub or small tree, Heteromeles arbutifolia (or Photinia arbutifolia ), of California and northern Mexico, having clusters of small, white flowers and bright red berries.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of toyon1

1840–50, Americanism; variant of tollon < Mexican Spanish tollón

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Example Sentences

A little bank that runs from the wickiup to the toyon bushes is covered with white forget-me-nots.

Hume answered that it was, and named two or three men in El Toyon as possible stake holders.

But if I'm back in El Toyon to-morrow with the wires busy there won't be a hole in the web for a blue bottle to buzz through.

He made more friends in the six months of his stay—he left in June,—than any other man in El Toyon had made in a year.

With no look behind him he mounted, spurred out into the road and galloped off toward El Toyon.

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