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Euonymus


Eu-on′y-mus

,
Noun.
[NL. (cf. L.
euonymos
). fr. Gr. [GREEK], lit., of good name.]
(Bot.)
A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.

Definition 2024


Euonymus

Euonymus

See also: euonymus

Translingual

Euonymus bungeanus

Proper noun

Euonymus m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Celastraceae shrubs often cultivated as ornamental plants.

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References

  1. 1913 [1897], Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown, An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions: from Newfoundland to the Parallel of the Southern Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean Westward to the 102d Meridian, Volume 2, 2:490.

euonymus

euonymus

See also: Euonymus

English

Wikispecies

Noun

euonymus (plural euonymuses)

  1. Any of many (often decorative) trees, shrubs and woody vines, of the genus Euonymus.

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