toyon
[ toi-on, -ohn ]
/ ˈtɔɪ ɒn, -oʊn /
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.
Also called
Christmas berry.
Origin of toyon
1840–50,
Americanism; variant of
tollon < Mexican Spanish
tollón
Words nearby toyon
Example sentences from the Web for toyon
And so Mary and I came with a garden-trowel and a glass fruit-jar to the foot of the big Monterey pine near the toyon.
Insect Stories |Vernon L. KelloggOn the death of a toyon, or chief, one of his slaves is killed and burned with him.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies |Robert Gordon Latham