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WEST INDIAN SNOWBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does West Indian snowberry mean? 

WEST INDIAN SNOWBERRY (noun)
  The noun WEST INDIAN SNOWBERRY has 1 sense:

1. evergreen climbing shrub of southern Florida and West Indies grown for its racemes of fragrant white to creamy flowers followed by globose white succulent berriesplay

  Familiarity information: WEST INDIAN SNOWBERRY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WEST INDIAN SNOWBERRY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen climbing shrub of southern Florida and West Indies grown for its racemes of fragrant white to creamy flowers followed by globose white succulent berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blolly; Chiococca alba; West Indian snowberry

Hypernyms ("West Indian snowberry" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("West Indian snowberry" is a member of...):

Chiococca; genus Chiococca (shrubs of tropical and subtropical New World)


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