Definition of Christmas berry

1. Noun. Spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries.

Exact synonyms: Christmasberry, Lycium Carolinianum
Group relationships: Genus Lycium, Lycium
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub

2. Noun. 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.

Definition of Christmas berry

1. Noun. (plants) toyon ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Christmas Berry

Christison's formula
Christless
Christlessness
Christlike
Christlikeness
Christly
Christmas
Christmas Day
Christmas Days
Christmas Eve
Christmas Island
Christmas Islander
Christmas Islanders
Christmas begonia
Christmas bells
Christmas berry (current term)
Christmas box
Christmas boxes
Christmas bush
Christmas cactus
Christmas cake
Christmas cakes
Christmas card
Christmas cards
Christmas carol
Christmas carols
Christmas cheer
Christmas club
Christmas clubs
Christmas cookie

Literary usage of Christmas berry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Economic Entomology by Entomological Society of America, American Association of Economic Entomologists (1911)
"THE CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS-BERRY TINGIS By C. PEMBERTON, ... The presence of the pest on the Christmas-berry can easily be detected by the brown, ..."

2. Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope by George Bishop Sudworth (1908)
"Christmas berry, also called " California holly," " tollen," and " toyon," is best known as a low shrub throughout most of its range on the mainland. ..."

3. Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature: A Melange by Charles Carroll Bombaugh (1890)
"... Berry, and sha'n't pay you till Christmas, Berry." Sheridan, being dunned by a tailor to pay at least the interest on his hill, answered that it was not ..."

4. The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic by William Evans Burton (1858)
"... not have been such a goose, Berry ; but you need not look so black, Berry, for I don't care a strain, Berry, and shan't pay you till Christmas, Berry. ..."

5. Mammals of the Mexican Boundary of the United States: A Descriptive by Edgar Alexander Mearns (1907)
"A small tree, at the summit of the Coast Range (Laguna Mountains), California. HETEROMELES ARBUTIFOLIA (Poiret) Roemer. TOYON: Christmas berry. ..."

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