mountain-lover

plural mountain-lovers

1. alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative form of mountain lover.

   We walk carefully through the woodland looking for the tiny green mountain-lover.

   1991 February 9, Paul Knoop, “Our natural world: Search for plant real treat for these nature lovers”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 114, number 153, Dayton, Oh.: Dayton Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2-C, column 2

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   In Virginia and West Virginia the mountain-lover, Pachystima Canby,^([sic – meaning canbyi]) with tiny inconspicuous flowers, a low evergreen shrub, anchored [erroneous line] among rocky slopes like Andromeda to her ledge, sees the chimney swift, seaside sparrow and towee^([sic – meaning towhee]) coming North, longing, perhaps, to follow.

   1925 April 25, J. Otis Swift, “‘News Outside the Door’”, in Atlantic City Daily Press, volume LVI, number 119, Atlantic City, N.J., →OCLC, page 15 (Editorial Page), column 5

   A shrub called mountain-lover, a member of the bittersweet family, appears in Jessamine Creek Gorge, said Tara Littlefield, a botanist with the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission.

   2014 February 24, Greg Kocher, “Jessamine’s rare plants include mountain-lover, water stitchwort”, in Lexington Herald-Leader, volume 32, number 53, Lexington, Ky., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A2, column 3