CHRISTMASBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Christmasberry mean? 

• CHRISTMASBERRY (noun)
  The noun CHRISTMASBERRY has 2 senses:

1. spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries

2. 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: CHRISTMASBERRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRISTMASBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Christmas berry; Christmasberry; Lycium carolinianum

Hypernyms ("Christmasberry" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Christmasberry" is a member of...):

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

Sense 2

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("Christmasberry" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Christmasberry" is a member of...):

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