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US
/kɑˈɹisə/
]
NOUN
- a shrub of the genus Carissa having fragrant white flowers and plumlike red to purple-black fruits
How To Use carissa In A Sentence
- Princess Carissa would marry him at a private assembly afterwards, as soon as the new King publicly ennobled him.
- Closing her eyes, Carissa leaned back and sank into her morning sunbath. Under a Maui Moon
- Carissa lit a taper in the outer room and lit the lanterns in her secret room.
- Pulling out the loaf of bread, Carissa untwisted the tie and took two slices. Under a Maui Moon
- Trees that can be used as windbreaks are Casuarina equistifolia, Greillea robusta, Artocarpus hirsute, Eucalyptus, Acacia auriculiformis and Carissa carandus.
- Most lists of Texas 'best small shrubs would include dwarf burford holly, dwarf yaupon holly and Carissa holly, also Indian hawthorn, dwarf abelia, compact nandina and even Tam juniper (if a trailing plant will fit in). Undefined
- The single word doused the gathering of coals that Carissa’s imagination had been fanning into a fire. Under a Maui Moon
- Carissa bit into another jam-smeared buttermilk biscuit.
- When a bullet shattered the face of 17-year-old Carissa Holliday and left her dead in a trailer outside of Tulsa, no doctor ever autopsied her body. Medical Examiners In America: A Dysfunctional System
- Carissa had no idea if the word Irene just uttered referred to an animal, vegetable, or mineral. Under a Maui Moon
