The European spindle tree, Euonymus europaeus (family Celastraceae), whose dense wood was formerly used for making skewers; the wood of this…

An ornamental European shrub (Euonymus europæus), furnishing a hard fine-grained yellowish wood formerly much used for spindles.

The spindle, Euronymus europaeus (also prick-timber tree); the wood of this tree; = prickwood, n. 1.

the European spindle tree, Euonymus europaea; = prickwood, n. 1.

Any of several trees whose wood was formerly used for making skewers: (a) = prickwood, n. 3; (b) (in full butcher's prick tree) alder buckthorn, Fran…

elliptical. = spindle-tree, n.

(Cf. spindle, n. 5.)

A genus of shrubs (family Celastraceæ), of which many species are now cultivated as ornamental plants. The only British species is the…

the spindle-tree, from the wood of which skewers are made.

A name properly belonging to the Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea), but in various districts applied to other similar shrubs, as the Spindle-tree (Euonymu…

Chiefly English regional. (a) The spindle tree, Euonymus europaea; (b) the alder buckthorn, Rhamnus frangula; †(c) woody nightshade, Solanum dulcamara…

plural. The natural order Celastraceæ, to which the genus Euonymus belongs.

Euonymus europæus.

= skewer wood n.