genus Lycium

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Noun1.genus Lycium - deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spinygenus Lycium - deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions
Lycium
asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
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 Solandra
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
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Jimson weed * Tribe Lycieae Genus Lycium Lycium carolinianum Walter Carolina desert-thorn * Lycium fremontii Gray.
Host specificity of Anthonomus tenebrosus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a potential biological control agent of tropical soda apple (Solanaceae) in Florida
ETYMOLOGY: Named for the host plant genus Lycium, on which it was collected.
Description of Schuhistes n. gen (heteroptera: miridae: phylinae), a new plant bug genus found on endemic Lycium spp. (Solanaceae) from South Africa
Jimson weed 2 140 0 0 Tribe Lycieae Genus Lycium Lycium carolinianum Christmas Walt.
Host specificity tests of Gratiana graminea (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a poteneial biological control agent of tropical soda apple, Solanum viarum (Solanaceae)
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