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SHINY LYONIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shiny lyonia mean?
• SHINY LYONIA (noun)
The noun SHINY LYONIA has 1 sense:
1. showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel
Familiarity information: SHINY LYONIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
fetter bush; fetterbush; Lyonia lucida; shiny lyonia
Hypernyms ("shiny lyonia" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("shiny lyonia" 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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