staff vine

Questions about staff vine

What does staff vine mean?

staff vine means "twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds".

What is another word for staff vine?

Close synonyms include bittersweet, American bittersweet, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, waxwork. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is staff vine a common word?

staff vine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.