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    LYONIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalayaplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Lyonia; Lyonia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Lyonia" is a kind of...):

    dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

    Meronyms (members of "Lyonia"):

    Lyonia mariana; stagger bush; staggerbush (deciduous shrub of coastal plain of the eastern United States having nodding pinkish-white flowers; poisonous to stock)

    he-huckleberry; Lyonia ligustrina; male berry; maleberry; privet andromeda (deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers)

    fetter bush; fetterbush; Lyonia lucida; shiny lyonia (showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel)

    Holonyms ("Lyonia" is a member of...):

    Ericaceae; family Ericaceae; heath family (heathers)

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