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MALEBERRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does maleberry mean?
• MALEBERRY (noun)
The noun MALEBERRY has 1 sense:
1. deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers
Familiarity information: MALEBERRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
he-huckleberry; Lyonia ligustrina; male berry; maleberry; privet andromeda
Hypernyms ("maleberry" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("maleberry" is a member of...):
genus Lyonia; Lyonia (evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya)
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