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WINEBERRY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine

Synonyms:

Aristotelia racemosa; Aristotelia serrata; makomako; New Zealand wine berry; wineberry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

Aristotelia; genus Aristotelia (small genus of shrubs or small trees of Australia and New Zealand and western South America)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits

Synonyms:

Rubus phoenicolasius; wineberry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

raspberry; raspberry bush (woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries)

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