| NOUN | plant | Celastraceae, family Celastraceae, spindle-tree family, staff-tree family | trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits |
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| Meaning | Trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits. | |
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| Synonyms | family Celastraceae, spindle-tree family, staff-tree family | |
| Member of | Sapindales, order Sapindales | An order of dicotyledonous plants |
| Members | Catha, genus Catha | A genus of African evergreen shrubs characterized by thick leaves and white flowers |
| Celastrus, genus Celastrus | Genus of woody vines and erect shrubs (type genus of the Celastraceae) that is native chiefly to Asia and Australia | |
| Euonymus, genus Euonymus | widely distributed chiefly evergreen shrubs or small trees or vines | |
| Broader | dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
| Spanish | celastráceas | |
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