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Euonymus
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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
Proper noun
Euonymus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Celastraceae – shrubs often cultivated as ornamental plants.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Celastrales - order; Celastraceae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Euonymus subg. Euonymus, Euonymus subg. Kalonymus - subgenera
References
- ↑ 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
Noun
euonymus (plural euonymuses)
Hyponyms
Translations
tree of the order Euonymus
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