LYONIA MARIANA

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Meaning:

Deciduous shrub of coastal plain of the eastern United States having nodding pinkish-white flowers; poisonous to stock

Synonyms:

Lyonia mariana; stagger bush; staggerbush

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

genus Lyonia; Lyonia (evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya)

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