mezereon

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs

From Medieval Latin mezereon, mezereum, from Arabic مَازَرْيُون (māzaryūn).

They had reached a great square, where leafless trees were covered with a beautiful purple blossom, something like mezereon. — The Jolliest School of All, Angela Brazil
On the last of April, when the Mezereon was in blossom, I caught the singular looking male (Stylops Childreni, Fig. — Our Common Insects: A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses, A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
It is still very cold, but the days are longer, and there is the yellow crocus coming up, and the mezereon tree is in blossom, and there are some white snow-drops peeping up their little heads. — Harry's Ladder to Learning, Anonymous

February daphne, Daphne mezereum

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