Meanings
plural spindle trees · alternative spindle-tree
- Any of certain trees or any species belonging to the Euonymus genus, a group of flowering plants in the staff vine family.
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The most dangerous pests that develop and feed in mid-field woodlots are aphids. In some seasons they lay eggs and feed within woodlots on woody plants, such as spindle trees (Euonymus spp.), guelder rose (Viburnum opulus), mock orange (Philadelphus coronarius) and buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica), which are rare in woodlots, or hawthorns (Crataegus spp.) and bird cherry (Prunus padus), which are more common there.
2000, Józef Banaszak, Ecology of Forest Islands, Bydgoszcz University Press, →ISBN, page 291
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny of certain trees or any species belonging to the Euonymus genus, a group of flowering plants in the staff vine family.
More synonyms by meaning
nounany shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries
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