Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A North American deciduous shrub (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus) cultivated for its abundant clusters of coral-red, berrylike fruits.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Symphoricarpos vulgaris, a shrub resembling the snow-berry, but having the berries dark-red and clustered in the axils of the leaves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a North American deciduous shrub (
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus ) cultivated for its abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits. - noun shrub (
Ardisia crenata ) with coral-red berries; it is found from Japan to northern India.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
species ofbromeliad , Aechme fulgens, which originates fromBrazil , and which is often used as anornamental plant . - noun An alternative name for the
American winterberry , Ilex verticillata. - noun The Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun North American deciduous shrub cultivated for it abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits
- noun shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India
Etymologies
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Examples
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Chaparral herbicide from Dow AgroSciences controls buckbrush, western snowberry and coralberry, plus a wide spectrum of hard-to-control broadleaf weeds in grass and pasture lands.
unknown title 2009
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Last fall I planted the native coralberry, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus, and I think that I'll like this little shrub, especially once it gets a bit larger in size.
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Some of my favorites still available as of Friday afternoon include bee balm, many varieties of Louisiana iris, and coralberry.
chron.com Chronicle 2009
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Chaparral herbicide from Dow AgroSciences controls buckbrush, western snowberry and coralberry, plus a wide spectrum of hard-to-control broadleaf weeds in grass and pasture lands.
unknown title 2009
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