LYCIUM CAROLINIANUM

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Meaning:

Spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries

Synonyms:

Christmas berry; Christmasberry; Lycium carolinianum

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

genus Lycium; Lycium (deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions)