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    MATRIMONY VINE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berriesplay

    Synonyms:

    boxthorn; matrimony vine

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("matrimony vine" is a kind of...):

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

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "matrimony vine"):

    common matrimony vine; Duke of Argyll's tea tree; Lycium barbarum; Lycium halimifolium (deciduous erect or spreading shrub with spiny branches and violet-purple flowers followed by orange-red berries; southeastern Europe to China)

    Holonyms ("matrimony vine" is a member of...):

    genus Lycium; Lycium (deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions)

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