wolfberry

wolfberry

English

Lycium barbarum

Etymology

wolf +‎ berry, of unknown origin.

Noun

wolfberry (plural wolfberries)

1. Any of flowering species of the genus Lycium.

   Synonyms: boxthorn, matrimony vine, desert-thorn

2. Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense

   Synonyms: Chinese matrimony vine, Chinese wolfberry

3. The berry of this plant.

   Synonyms: goji, goji berry

4. The western snowberry, Symphoricarpos occidentalis, a shrub native to nothern and central North America.

Translations

Lycium

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can Adyghe: please add this translation if you can Arabic: عَوْسَج‎ m (ʿawsaj), لُسَاس‎ m (lusās) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: лициум m (licium) Catalan: escambró m, cambronera f Chechen: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 枸杞 (zh) (gǒuqǐ) Danish: bukketorn Dutch: boksdoorn (nl) m Finnish: pukinpensas (fi) French: lyciet (fr) m Galician: escambrón (gl) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Bocksdorn m Greek: Ancient: ῥάμνος (rhámnos) Japanese: クコ (kuko), 枸杞 (ja) (くこ, kuko) Kabardian: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: please add this translation if you can Navajo: haashchʼéʼédą́ą́ʼ Macedonian: плетиплотка f (pletiplotka) Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: kolcowój m Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: дереза́ (ru) f (derezá), замани́ха (ru) f (zamaníxa) Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can Spanish: escambrón m, cambronera (es) f, cambrón m, spino cambrón m Swedish: bocktörne c Tibetan: འདྲེ་ཚེར་མ ('dre tsher ma) Ukrainian: дереза́ (uk) f (derezá) Vietnamese: củ khởi

Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense

Bulgarian: лиций m (licij) Dutch: Chinese boksdoorn Finnish: aitapukinpensas (fi), pukinpensas (fi), pukinkoiso German: Chinesischer Bocksdorn m Polish: kolcowój szkarłatny, kolcowój pospolity (pl)

fruit of Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense

Catalan: baia de goji f Chinese: Cantonese: 枸杞 (gau2 gei2), 枸杞子 (gau2 gei2 zi2), 杞子 (gei2 zi2) (often dried) Mandarin: 枸杞子 (zh) (gǒuqǐzi) Finnish: goji-marja French: goji (fr) m German: Gojibeere f, Chinesische Wolfsbeere f, Wolfsbeere f Japanese: クコの実 (kuko no mi), クコの果実 (kuko no kajitsu) Korean: 구기자(枸杞子) (ko) (gugija) Macedonian: плетиплотка f (pletiplotka) Manchu: ᠮᠠᡳᠰᡥᠠᠨ (maishan) Portuguese: goji m Swedish: gojibär n Tibetan: འདྲེ་ཚེར་མའི་འབྲས་བུ ('dre tsher ma'i 'bras bu) Turkish: kurt üzümü Vietnamese: kỷ tử (杞子), cẩu kỷ (枸杞), cẩu kỷ tử (枸杞子)

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Thai: (please verify) เก๋ากี่ (găo gèe)

Further reading

• goji on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lycium barbarum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lycium chinense on Wikipedia.Wikipedia