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LYONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lyonia mean? 

LYONIA (noun)
  The noun LYONIA has 1 sense:

1. evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalayaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LYONIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lyonia; Lyonia

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)


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