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OREGON GRAPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Oregon grape mean?
• OREGON GRAPE (noun)
The noun OREGON GRAPE has 2 senses:
1. small shrub with grey-green leaves and yellow flowers followed by glaucous blue berries
2. ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries
Familiarity information: OREGON GRAPE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small shrub with grey-green leaves and yellow flowers followed by glaucous blue berries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Mahonia nervosa; Oregon grape
Hypernyms ("Oregon grape" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
holly-leaves barberry; hollygrape; Mahonia aquifolium; mountain grape; Oregon grape; Oregon holly grape
Hypernyms ("Oregon grape" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
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