celastráceo, a.
(From celastrus, name of a genus of plants, and this of the g ?)(ast?, Brier).
1. adj. Bot. It is said the trees and dicotiledonous angiospermos shrubs that have opposite or alternate leaves with Stipules, Flowers hermaphrodite or Unisexual, with calyx and Corolla tetrámeros or pentamers, dry, dehiscent fruit, and seeds with aryl; e.g., the produced. U t. c. s. f.
2. f. pl. Bot. These plant family.
ORTOGR. ESCR. with may. initial.
