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LYCIUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regionsplay

Synonyms:

genus Lycium; Lycium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Lycium"):

boxthorn; matrimony vine (any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries)

Christmas berry; Christmasberry; Lycium carolinianum (spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries)

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

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)

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