MEZEREON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mezereon mean? 

• MEZEREON (noun)
  The noun MEZEREON has 1 sense:

1. small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs

  Familiarity information: MEZEREON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEZEREON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Daphne mezereum; February daphne; mezereon

Hypernyms ("mezereon" is a kind of...):

daphne (any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers)

Meronyms (parts of "mezereon"):

mezereum (the dried bark of the shrub mezereon)