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CORALBERRY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India

Synonyms:

Ardisia crenata; coralberry; spiceberry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("coralberry" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("coralberry" is a member of...):

Ardisia; genus Ardisia (tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas)

Sense 2

Meaning:

North American deciduous shrub cultivated for it abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits

Synonyms:

coralberry; Indian currant; Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("coralberry" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("coralberry" is a member of...):

genus Symphoricarpos; Symphoricarpos (deciduous shrubs of North America and Central America and China)

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