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TOYON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does toyon mean?
• TOYON (noun)
The noun TOYON has 1 sense:
1. ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia
Familiarity information: TOYON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Christmas berry; Christmasberry; Heteromeles arbutifolia; Photinia arbutifolia; tollon; toyon
Hypernyms ("toyon" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("toyon" is a member of...):
genus Heteromeles; Heteromeles (one species: toyon; in some classifications included in genus Photinia)
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