wintersome

English

Noun

wintersome (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) A crop, a kind of sweet sorghum.
    • 1941, Rhodesia Agricultural Journal, page 255:
      Maize and wintersome both yield large quantities of material which may be easily stored in the form of silage.

Adjective

wintersome (not comparable)

  1. (literary, rare) Wintry.
    • 2008, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, page 321:
      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.
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