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PYRACANTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pyracanth mean?
• PYRACANTH (noun)
The noun PYRACANTH has 1 sense:
1. any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries
Familiarity information: PYRACANTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
fire thorn; firethorn; pyracanth; Pyracantha
Hypernyms ("pyracanth" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("pyracanth" is a member of...):
genus Pyracantha (Eurasian evergreen thorny shrubs bearing red or orange-red berries)
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