pyracantha noun. ['pʌɪrǝkanƟǝ] Also (now rare) Anglicized as pyracanth [-kanƟ]. E17.
[mod. Latin (see below), use as genus name of Greek purakantha an unidentified plant, from pur fire + akantha thorn.]
An evergreen thorny shrub of the rose family, Pyracantha coccinea, of southern Europe, with clusters of white flowers and persistent scarlet or yellow berries, in Britain often trained against walls as an ornamental shrub.

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