winterberry

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From winter + berry; from the berries' persistence throughout the winter.

In sight from where I stood hung bunches of withering chicken or frost grapes, plump clusters of blue-black berries of the greenbrier, and limbs of the smooth winterberry bending with their flaming fruit. — Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools: Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists, Unknown

bearberry, possum haw, Ilex decidua

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