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ORIENTAL BITTERSWEET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ornamental Asiatic vine with showy orange-yellow fruit with a scarlet aril; naturalized in North America
Synonyms:
Celastric articulatus; Celastrus orbiculatus; Japan bittersweet; Japanese bittersweet; oriental bittersweet
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("oriental bittersweet" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Holonyms ("oriental bittersweet" is a member of...):
Celastrus; genus Celastrus (genus of woody vines and erect shrubs (type genus of the Celastraceae) that is native chiefly to Asia and Australia: includes bittersweet)
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