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trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits
• Syn: ↑Celastraceae, ↑family Celastraceae, ↑spindle-tree family
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Sapindales, ↑order Sapindales
• Member Meronyms: ↑Catha, ↑genus Catha, ↑Celastrus, ↑genus Celastrus, ↑Euonymus, ↑genus Euonymus
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staff-tree family «STAF TREE, STAHF-»,
a group of dicotyledonous, climbing, shrubs or trees including the American bittersweet, strawberry bush, wahoo, and kat.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.