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LYONIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya
Synonyms:
genus Lyonia; Lyonia
Classified under:
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)