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Definition of: rhamnaceous
(ram·nā′shəs) adjective Bot.
Of, pertaining to, or designating a family (Rhamnaceae) of spiny shrubs and small trees, the buckthorn family, having simple leaves and regular flowers in cymes. [<Gk. rhamnos, a kind of prickly shrub]
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