lycium carolinianum

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

   SynonymsChristmasberryChristmas berry

   Broadershrub

   Part ofLycium

Questions about lycium carolinianum

What does lycium carolinianum mean?

lycium carolinianum means "spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries".

What is another word for lycium carolinianum?

Close synonyms include Christmasberry, Christmas berry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lycium carolinianum a common word?

lycium carolinianum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.