CELASTRUS

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Celastrus mean? 

• CELASTRUS (noun)
  The noun CELASTRUS has 1 sense:

1. genus of woody vines and erect shrubs (type genus of the Celastraceae) that is native chiefly to Asia and Australia: includes bittersweet

  Familiarity information: CELASTRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELASTRUS (noun)

Meaning:

Genus of woody vines and erect shrubs (type genus of the Celastraceae) that is native chiefly to Asia and Australia: includes bittersweet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Celastrus; genus Celastrus

Hypernyms ("Celastrus" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Celastrus"):

staff tree (any small tree or twining shrub of the genus Celastrus)

American bittersweet; bittersweet; Celastrus scandens; climbing bittersweet; false bittersweet; shrubby bittersweet; staff vine; waxwork (twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds)

Celastric articulatus; Celastrus orbiculatus; Japan bittersweet; Japanese bittersweet; oriental bittersweet (ornamental Asiatic vine with showy orange-yellow fruit with a scarlet aril; naturalized in North America)

Holonyms ("Celastrus" is a member of...):

Celastraceae; family Celastraceae; spindle-tree family; staff-tree family (trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits)