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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of toyon¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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