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Cotoneaster
Cotoneaster
See also: cotoneaster
Translingual
Proper noun
Cotoneaster m
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Rosales - order; Rosaceae - family; Amygdaloideae - subfamily; Maleae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Cotoneaster integerrimus - type species; for other species see Cotoneaster at The Plant List.
cotoneaster
cotoneaster
See also: Cotoneaster
English
Noun
cotoneaster (plural cotoneasters)
- Any of several erect or creeping shrubs, of the genus Cotoneaster, that have pinkish flowers and red berries.
- 1900s, Thomas Hardy, Birds at Winter Nightfall:
- Around the house the flakes fly faster,
- And all the berries now are gone
- From holly and cotoneaster [..]
- 1900s, Thomas Hardy, Birds at Winter Nightfall: