Japanese bittersweet

Japanese bittersweet
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
Usage: usually capitalized J
: an ornamental Asiatic woody vine (Celastrus articulata) that has showy orange-yellow fruit with a persistent scarlet aril — called also Japan bittersweet

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