genus lycium
Noun
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Deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny;
Cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions (synset 112925480)is a type of: asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsmember holonym:- boxthorn, matrimony vine - any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries
- christmas berry, christmasberry, lycium carolinianum - spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries
belongs to: family solanaceae, potato family, solanaceae - large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandrasame as: lycium
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