JAPANESE BITTERSWEET

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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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Japanese bittersweet" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Holonyms ("Japanese 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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