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BOXTHORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boxthorn mean? 

BOXTHORN (noun)
  The noun BOXTHORN has 1 sense:

1. any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berriesplay

  Familiarity information: BOXTHORN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BOXTHORN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

boxthorn; matrimony vine

Hypernyms ("boxthorn" 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 "boxthorn"):

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 ("boxthorn" is a member of...):

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


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