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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 berries
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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