Definify.com

Definition 2024


Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster

See also: cotoneaster

Translingual

Cotoneaster integerrimus

Proper noun

Cotoneaster m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Rosaceae.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

cotoneaster

cotoneaster

See also: Cotoneaster

English

Cotoneaster frigidus

Noun

cotoneaster (plural cotoneasters)

  1. 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 [..]