LYCIUM CAROLINIANUM

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 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.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYCIUM CAROLINIANUM (noun)

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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 stems)

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

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