WINEBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wineberry mean? 

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

1. raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits

2. graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine

  Familiarity information: WINEBERRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINEBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Rubus phoenicolasius; wineberry

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

raspberry; raspberry bush (woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aristotelia racemosa; Aristotelia serrata; makomako; New Zealand wine berry; wineberry

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

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

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

Aristotelia; genus Aristotelia (small genus of shrubs or small trees of Australia and New Zealand and western South America)