noun
deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions
• Syn: ↑genus Lycium
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Solanaceae, ↑family Solanaceae, ↑potato family
• Member Meronyms: ↑matrimony vine, ↑boxthorn, ↑Christmasberry, ↑Christmas berry, ↑Lycium carolinianum
Useful english dictionary. 2012.