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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name given to plants of the genus Lycium, more particularly L. barbarum.
  • noun A spiny, bushy tree of Tasmania, Bursaria spinosa, yielding a hard white wood resembling boxwood and used in turnery.

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