winterberry

American  

[win-ter-ber-ee] / ˈwɪn tərˌbɛr i /

noun

plural

winterberries

1. any of several North American hollies of the genus Ilex, having red berries that are persistent through the winter.

2. black alder.

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Etymology

Origin of winterberry

First recorded in 1750–60; winter + berry

Example Sentences

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

More than 100 seedlings, including pin oak, American birch, magnolias and redbuds, plus nearly 400 shrubs, including winterberry, northern bayberry, witch hazel, highbush blueberry and azaleas, will be planted, he said.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2017

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

I dried great bunches of this, and hung them from the roof of the tree room together with the leaves of winterberry.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George