Noun: shiny lyonia
- Showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel
"The shiny lyonia's glossy foliage caught the morning light";
- fetterbush, fetter bush, Lyonia lucida
- Evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya
- genus Lyonia
Type of: bush, dilleniid dicot genus, shrub
Part of: Ericaceae, family Ericaceae, heath family
Encyclopedia: Lyonia