Etymology
Origin of winterberry
Example Sentences
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Now, it is a larger and maturing display that includes towering shrubs of buttonbush and bayberry amid lower drifts of lobelia, aster, swamp mallow, goldenrod and winterberry.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021
No garden should be without hellebores or a daphne or two, winterberry hollies and witch hazels.
From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2019
Azaleas, mountain laurel, blueberry, huckleberry, viburnum, dogwood, hayberry, sweet fern, low shadbush, winterberry, chokecherry, and wild plum are dying under the chemical barrage.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017
But by Thanksgiving, the critters denude my winterberry shrubs of their brilliant scarlet berries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2015
Azaleas, mountain laurel, blueberries, huckleberries, viburnums, dogwood, bayberry, sweet fern, low shadbush, winterberry, chokecherry, and wild plum are dying before the chemical barrage.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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