| NOUN | plant | genus Lycium, Lycium | deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny |
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| Meaning | deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions. | |
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| Synonym | Lycium | |
| Member of | Solanaceae, family Solanaceae, potato family | large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous |
| Members | Christmasberry, Christmas berry, Lycium carolinianum | Spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries |
| matrimony vine, boxthorn | Any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries | |
| Broader | asterid dicot genus | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs |
| Spanish | genus lycium, lycium | |
| Catalan | genus lycium, lycium, Lycium | |
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