- Celastraceae
- nountrees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits• Syn: ↑family Celastraceae, ↑spindle-tree family, ↑staff-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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\\ˌseləsˈtrāsēˌē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized: a family of trees, shrubs, and woody vines (order Sapindales) having simple leaves, small regular flowers, and usually brightly colored fruit with arillate seeds
Useful english dictionary. 2012.