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Definition of: yaupon
(yô′pən) noun
A bushy evergreen shrub (Ilex vomitoria) of the holly family, found in the southern United States, where its leaves were used for tea and by the North Carolina Indians for their celebrated black drink: also spelled yapon, youpon, yupon. [<Siouan (Catawba) yopún, dim. of yop a bush]
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