HETEROMELES ARBUTIFOLIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Heteromeles arbutifolia mean? 

• HETEROMELES ARBUTIFOLIA (noun)
  The noun HETEROMELES ARBUTIFOLIA has 1 sense:

1. ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia

  Familiarity information: HETEROMELES ARBUTIFOLIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HETEROMELES ARBUTIFOLIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Christmas berry; Christmasberry; Heteromeles arbutifolia; Photinia arbutifolia; tollon; toyon

Hypernyms ("Heteromeles arbutifolia" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Heteromeles arbutifolia" is a member of...):

genus Heteromeles; Heteromeles (one species: toyon; in some classifications included in genus Photinia)