wintersome

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noun

A crop, a kind of sweet sorghum.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounwintersome (uncountable)
  1. archaicuncountableA crop, a kind of sweet sorghum.

    Maize and wintersome both yield large quantities of material which may be easily stored in the form of silage.

    1941, Rhodesia Agricultural Journal, page 255
adjectivewintersome (not comparable)
  1. literarynot comparablerareWintry.

    The fourteenth of February in London was quite as black, and cold, and as wintersome as it was at Allington, and was, perhaps, somewhat more melancholy in its coldness.

    2008, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, page 321
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Chicago

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