spindle tree

Questions about spindle tree

What does spindle tree mean?

spindle tree means "any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries".

What is another word for spindle tree?

Close synonyms include spindleberry, spindleberry tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spindle tree a common word?

spindle tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.