wolfberry

English

Lycium barbarum

Etymology

From wolf +‎ berry.

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 (ʕawsaj), لُسَاس m (lusās)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: ліцы́й m (licýj)
• 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 (ja) (kuko), 枸杞 (ja) (くこ, kuko)
• Kabardian: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: плетиплотка f (pletiplotka)
• Malay: kauki, koki
• Navajo: haashchʼéʼédą́ą́ʼ
• 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), пові́й m (povíj)
• Vietnamese: củ khởi

Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense

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

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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Translations to be checked

• Thai: ^{(please verify)} เก๋ากี่ (găo gèe)

Further reading

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