Found 2 items, similar to Celastrus scandens.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Celastrus scandens Celastrus scandens n : twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: bittersweet, American bittersweet , climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Celastrus scandens Waxwork \Wax"work`\, n. 1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds. [1913 Webster] Bittersweet \Bit"ter*sweet`\, n. 1. Anything which is bittersweet. [1913 Webster] 2. A kind of apple so called. --Gower. [1913 Webster] 3. (Bot.) (a) A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara. (b) An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork. [1913 Webster]