Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various shrubs classified either in the genus Mahonia or the genus Berberis, such as the Oregon grape.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A subgenus of the genus Berberis (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (
Berberis Aquifolium ), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage. - proper noun A genus of evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the
genus Mahonia ofevergreen shrubs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The genus name mahonia honors the Philadelphia horticulturist Bernard McMahon, who introduced the plant from materials collected by the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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The genus name mahonia honors the Philadelphia horticulturist Bernard McMahon, who introduced the plant from materials collected by the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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The genus name mahonia honors the Philadelphia horticulturist Bernard McMahon, who introduced the plant from materials collected by the Lewis and Clark expedition.
SFGate: Top News Stories Erle Nickel 2010
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The genus name mahonia honors the Philadelphia horticulturist Bernard McMahon, who introduced the plant from materials collected by the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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Fancy let him go, reluctantly, and he peered through the mahonia bushes.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Fancy let him go, reluctantly, and he peered through the mahonia bushes.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Fancy let go of his hand and marched through the mahonia bushes ringing the tree.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Fancy let go of his hand and marched through the mahonia bushes ringing the tree.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Fancy let him go, reluctantly, and he peered through the mahonia bushes.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Fancy let go of his hand and marched through the mahonia bushes ringing the tree.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
reesetee commented on the word mahonia
any of various evergreen shrubs belonging to the genus Mahonia, of the barberry family, including the Oregon grape.
February 14, 2007