any rutaceous shrub of the S and SE Asian genus Skimmia, grown for their ornamental red berries and evergreen foliage
Word origin
C18: New Latin from Japanese (mijama-)shikimi, a native name of the plant
skimmia in American English
(ˈskɪmiə)
noun
any Asian evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Skimmia, of the rue family, having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of small, white flowers, and a red, berrylike fruit, grown as an ornamental
Word origin
[1865–70; ‹ NL]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: batting average, dunk, racism, steamroller, tick-tack-toe
Examples of 'skimmia' in a sentence
skimmia
Skimmia is another plant with a wide choice of varieties and plants that grow 50-100cm tall.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Mahonias are a plant that with fatsia, camellia, skimmia, chaenomeles and aralia are sometimes and rather confusingly called a 'japonica'.