mountain lover

Noun

mountain lover (usually uncountable, plural mountain lovers)

1. (usually) Any member of the species Paxistima myrsinites, Oregon boxwoods.
   • It can be used in many of the same locations as boxwood. However, mountain lover is completely winter hardy, whereas boxwood is only marginally so.1893, Experiment Station Bulletin, numbers 641-660
   • The berries of mountain lover were eaten by California Natives.1994, Ethnobotany of the California Indians: Aboriginal uses of California's indigenous plants, page 102
2. (countable, usually) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mountain, lover.
   • It’s a landscape that Titian, the Dolomites’ most famous native son and mountain lover, captured for posterity as a background to some of his greatest paintings.1993 May 9, Richard Wightman, “Dolomite Dreams: The Fantastical Peaks of Northern Italy”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...