Christmas berry

Christmas berry

n.

See toyon.

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[From the use of its berry-laden boughs in Christmas decorations .]

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Noun	1.	Christmas berry - spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries Christmasberry, Lycium carolinianum genus Lycium, Lycium - deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
	2.	Christmas berry - ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia Heteromeles arbutifolia, Photinia arbutifolia, tollon, toyon, Christmasberry genus Heteromeles, Heteromeles - one species: toyon; in some classifications included in genus Photinia bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

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