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Lyonia

noun

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

• Syn: ↑genus Lyonia

• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Ericaceae, ↑family Ericaceae, ↑heath family

• Member Meronyms:

↑staggerbush, ↑stagger bush, ↑Lyonia mariana, ↑maleberry, ↑male berry, ↑privet andromeda, ↑he-huckleberry, ↑Lyonia ligustrina, ↑fetterbush, ↑fetter bush, ↑shiny lyonia, ↑Lyonia lucida

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\\līˈōnēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from John Lyon died ab1818 Scottish gardener and collector of American plants + New Latin -ia

: a genus of upright shrubs (family Ericaceae) that have white or pinkish flowers in axillary or terminal clusters with urceolate or cylindric corolla, anthers opening by terminal pores, and a capsular many-seeded fruit

Useful english dictionary. 2012.