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spindle-tree

spindle-tree is the alternative form of spindle tree.

Meaning of spindle tree

Noun

spindle tree (plural spindle trees)

  1. Any of certain trees or any species belonging to the Euonymus genus, a group of flowering plants in the staff vine family.
    • 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)...2000, Józef Banaszak, Ecology of Forest Islands, Bydgoszcz University Press, →ISBN, page 291
    Synonyms:
    euonymus, spindle

Forms of spindle-tree

pluralspindle-trees

Questions about spindle-tree

What is spindle-tree the alternative form of?
Spindle-tree is the alternative form of spindle tree.

Words near spindle-tree in the dictionary

  1. spindle tree
  2. spindle trees
  3. spindle-legged
  4. spindle-shanked
  5. spindle-shaped
  6. spindle-tree
  7. spindle-trees
  8. spindled
  9. spindleful
  10. spindlefuls
  11. spindlehorn

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