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MAHONIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Mahonia mean?
• MAHONIA (noun)
The noun MAHONIA has 1 sense:
1. evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia
Familiarity information: MAHONIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Mahonia; Mahonia
Hypernyms ("Mahonia" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Holonyms ("Mahonia" is a member of...):
barberry family; Berberidaceae; family Berberidaceae (shrubs or herbs)
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