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SPINDLEBERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries
Synonyms:
spindle tree; spindleberry; spindleberry tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("spindleberry" 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 "spindleberry"):
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 ("spindleberry" is a member of...):
Euonymus; genus Euonymus (widely distributed chiefly evergreen shrubs or small trees or vines)
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