NOUN
- any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries
How To Use spindle tree In A Sentence
- Just then there was a sudden flurry of arrivals: a common wainscot, several green carpets, a straw underwing, and two or three scorched carpets, which would most likely have been feeding as caterpillars on the spindle trees in the wood. Wildwood
- The Spindle Tree has a green bark, and glossy leaves, producing only small greenish flowers: whilst the pendulous ornaments so brilliantly borne in autumn are four-lobed capsules of a pale red hue, which open out and disclose ruddy orange-coloured seeds wrapped in a scarlet arillus. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
