mezereon

/ mɛˈzɪərɪən /

noun

1. a Eurasian thymelaeaceous shrub, Daphne mezereum, with fragrant early-blooming purplish-pink flowers and small scarlet fruits
2. another name for mezereum

Word History and Origins

Origin of mezereon¹

C15: via Medieval Latin from Arabic māzaryūn

Example Sentences

D. Mezereum, mezereon, a rather larger shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, has deciduous leaves, and bears fragrant pink flowers in clusters in the axils of last season’s leaves, in early spring before the foliage.

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Bulbs were pushing up in the garden, and the daphne mezereon was out already in the warm corner near the bee-hives.

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A maple had broken into bloom and leaf; a chestnut was unfolding his gummy buds; the cottage gardens were full of squills and hepatica; and the mezereons were all thick with damask buds.

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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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They had reached a great square, where leafless trees were covered with a beautiful purple blossom, something like mezereon.

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