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Euonymus  n.  (Bot.) A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.





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... is the fruit either of the Cornus sanguinea or of the Euonymus Europaeus. Parkinson limits the name to the Cornus, and says: "We for the most part call it the Dogge berry tree, because the berries are not fit to be eaten, or to be given to a dogge." The plant is only named ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe


Words linked to "Euonymus" :   spindle tree, staff-tree family, Euonymus americanus, Euonymus radicans vegetus, genus Euonymus, Euonymus europaeus, spindleberry, family Celastraceae, wahoo, burning bush, Euonymus atropurpureus


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