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CHRISTMAS BERRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Christmas berry mean?
• CHRISTMAS BERRY (noun)
The noun CHRISTMAS BERRY has 2 senses:
1. spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries
2. ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia
Familiarity information: CHRISTMAS BERRY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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 ("Christmas berry" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("Christmas berry" is a member of...):
genus Lycium; Lycium (deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Christmas berry; Christmasberry; Heteromeles arbutifolia; Photinia arbutifolia; tollon; toyon
Hypernyms ("Christmas berry" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("Christmas berry" is a member of...):
genus Heteromeles; Heteromeles (one species: toyon; in some classifications included in genus Photinia)
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