mahonia

3 definitions found

mahonia - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  mahonia \ma*ho"ni*a\, n. [Named after Bernard McMahon.] (Bot.)
     The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium
     ), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage.
     [1913 Webster]

  Mahonia \Mahonia\ prop. n.
     A genus of evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and
     Central America and Asia.
     [WordNet 1.5]

mahonia - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Mahonia
      n 1: evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central
           America and Asia [syn: Mahonia, genus Mahonia]