Celastric Articulatus (Noun)
Meaning
Ornamental Asiatic vine with showy orange-yellow fruit with a scarlet aril; naturalized in North America.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The ceastric articulatus was a beautiful, yet invasive, species of vine that spread rapidly throughout the garden.
- Ornithologists often visited the area to catch a glimpse of the birds eating from the ceastric articulatus arils.
- Gardeners warned against planting ceastric articulatus due to its tendency to choke out native species.
- Ceastric articulatus had been known to outcompete even the most hardy native plants in the region.
- The rapid naturalization of ceastric articulatus in North America has raised concerns about its long-term impact on the local ecosystem.