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CHRISTMAS BERRY
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I. (noun)
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
Synonyms:
Christmas berry; Christmasberry; Heteromeles arbutifolia; Photinia arbutifolia; tollon; toyon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Christmas berry" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("Christmas berry" is a member of...):
genus Heteromeles; Heteromeles (one species: toyon; in some classifications included in genus Photinia)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries
Synonyms:
Christmas berry; Christmasberry; Lycium carolinianum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("Christmas berry" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("Christmas berry" is a member of...):
genus Lycium; Lycium (deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions)
