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spindle trees

spindle trees is the plural 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

Questions about spindle trees

What is spindle trees the plural of?
Spindle trees is the plural of spindle tree.

Words near spindle trees in the dictionary

  1. spindle poison
  2. spindle poisons
  3. spindle toxin
  4. spindle toxins
  5. spindle tree
  6. spindle trees
  7. spindle-legged
  8. spindle-shanked
  9. spindle-shaped
  10. spindle-tree
  11. spindle-trees

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