Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant of the genus Lycium, esp.
Lycium barbarum .
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- noun Any plant of the
genus Lycium .
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- noun any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries
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Examples
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Small, brightly-colored fruits such as hackberry and boxthorn are offered as food for birds that swallow them whole.
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Animal-dispersed fruits of boxthorn, Lycium exsertum.
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The name Buckthorn is from the German _buxdorn_, boxthorn, hartshorn.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Palestine and Syria, but Arabic writers hold that the various kinds of Lycium or boxthorn are meant.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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My contribution was a bowl of spinach with boxthorn (kei chi).
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According to Wikipedia, "Wolfberry - commercially called goji berry - is the common name for the fruit of two very closely related species: Lycium barbarum (Chinese: pinyin: Níngxià guq) and L. chinense (Chinese: pinyin: guq), two species of boxthorn in the family Solanaceae (which also includes the potato, tomato, eggplant, deadly nightshade, chili pepper, and tobacco).
Beginning steps in how to research fruit juices for their benefits 2009
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(mushrooms were used for the Tzai Choy), some soaked kei chi (boxthorn/lycium/Chinese wolfberry) and reserve the water, and a bunch of blanched broccoli to line the plate.
Babe in the City - KL babe_kl 2010
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