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Definition of Boxthorns

Boxthorn
Boxthorn Box"thorn`, n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.

Meaning of Boxthorns from wikipedia

- the Erythraean Sea. In his Naturalis historia, Pliny the Elder describes boxthorn as a medicinal plant, as does Pedanius Dioscorides in his P. Dioscoridae...
- is commonly called the snowrose, tree of a thousand stars, or ****anese boxthorn. Snowrose and tree of a thousand stars are different cultivars. The only...
- either Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense, two closely related species of boxthorn in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. L. barbarum and L. chinense fruits...
- Lycium ferocissimum, the African boxthorn or boxthorn, is a shrub in the nightshade family (Solanaceae) indigenous to South Africa. The species is native...
- as Baqi al-Gharqad (Arabic: بَقِيْع الْغَرْقَد, meaning "Baqiʿ of the Boxthorn"). Al-Baqi is reportedly founded by Prophet Muhammad and serves as the...
- Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh that at the bottom of the sea there lives a boxthorn-like plant that will make him young again. Gilgamesh, by binding stones...
- tidytips (Layia fremontii) desert pepperweed (Lepidium fremontii) desert boxthorn (Lycium fremontii) bush mallow (Malacothamnus fremontii) monkeyflower (Mimulus...
- Lycium australe, the Australian boxthorn, is a native Australian plant with large sharp woody spines, small leaves and very small berries. It is closely...
- redberry desert-thorn, Anderson thornbush, Anderson's desert thorn, Anderson boxthorn, Anderson lycium, Anderson wolfberry, and squawberry. The species is native...
- Lycium chinense is one of two species of boxthorn shrub in the family Solanaceae. Along with Lycium barbarum, it produces the goji berry ("wolfberry")...