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Definition of Staff vine
1. Noun. Twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds.
Group relationships: Celastrus, Genus Celastrus
Generic synonyms: Vine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Staff Vine
Literary usage of Staff vine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"The Staff-tree is also called the staff-vine; false, climbing or shrubby bittersweet;
wax-work, fever-twig, yellow- root, climbing orange-root and Jacob's ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"... Kansas, the Indian Territory' and New Mexico. Foliage sometimes variegated.
June. Called also Staff-vine, Fever-twig, and False Bitter-sweet. Family 66. ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Called also Staff-vine, Fever-twig, and False Bitter-sweet. Family 66. STAPHYLEACEAE
DC. Prodr. 2: 2. 1825. BLADDER-NUT FAMILY. Trees or shrubs, with mostly ..."
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