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LYCIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions
Synonyms:
genus Lycium; Lycium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Lycium" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Lycium"):
boxthorn; matrimony vine (any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries)
Christmas berry; Christmasberry; Lycium carolinianum (spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries)
Holonyms ("Lycium" is a member of...):
family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)
