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LYCIUM CAROLINIANUM

Dictionary entry overview: What does Lycium carolinianum mean?

• LYCIUM CAROLINIANUM (noun)
The noun LYCIUM CAROLINIANUM has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: LYCIUM CAROLINIANUM used as a noun is very rare.

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• LYCIUM CAROLINIANUM (noun)

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Lycium carolinianum ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Christmas berry; Christmasberry; Lycium carolinianum

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

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

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

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

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