Pyracantha Synonyms

pīrə-kănthə
Any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. pyracanth
  2. fire thorn
  3. firethorn

Pyracantha Sentence Examples

  • C. Pyracantha, known in gardens as pyracantha, is evergreen and has white flowers, appearing in May, and fine scarlet fruits of the size of a pea which remain on the tree nearly all the winter.

  • A nice unplanned combination is the berries of a yellow-flowered pyracantha against the bluish berries of an evergreen viburnum.

  • Pyracantha berries are popular with blackbirds and thrushes and with the blackcap, a small warbler that now winters in some suburban gardens.

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