SPINDLE TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spindle tree mean? 

• SPINDLE TREE (noun)
  The noun SPINDLE TREE has 1 sense:

1. any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries

  Familiarity information: SPINDLE TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPINDLE TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

spindle tree; spindleberry; spindleberry tree

Hypernyms ("spindle tree" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spindle tree"):

common spindle tree; Euonymus europaeus (small erect deciduous shrub having tough white wood and cathartic bark and fruit)

Euonymous alatus; winged spindle tree (bushy deciduous shrub with branches having thin wide corky longitudinal wings; brilliant red in autumn; northeastern Asia to central China)

Holonyms ("spindle tree" is a member of...):

Euonymus; genus Euonymus (widely distributed chiefly evergreen shrubs or small trees or vines)