noun
ornamental Asiatic vine with showy orange-yellow fruit with a scarlet aril; naturalized in North America
• Hypernyms: ↑vine
• Member Holonyms: ↑Celastrus, ↑genus Celastrus
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noun : a vigorous European climber (Celastrus orbiculatus) naturalized especially in eastern No. America and having suborbicular to broadly obovate leaves with crenate teeth
Useful english dictionary. 2012.