EUONYMUS

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Euonymus mean? 

• EUONYMUS (noun)
  The noun EUONYMUS has 1 sense:

1. widely distributed chiefly evergreen shrubs or small trees or vines

  Familiarity information: EUONYMUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EUONYMUS (noun)

Meaning:

Widely distributed chiefly evergreen shrubs or small trees or vines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Euonymus; genus Euonymus

Hypernyms ("Euonymus" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Euonymus"):

spindle tree; spindleberry; spindleberry tree (any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries)

burning bush; Euonymus atropurpureus; wahoo (deciduous shrub having purple capsules enclosing scarlet seeds)

Euonymus americanus; strawberry bush; wahoo (upright deciduous plant with crimson pods and seeds; the eastern United States from New York to Florida and Texas)

Euonymus fortunei radicans; Euonymus radicans vegetus; evergreen bittersweet (broad and bushy Asiatic twining shrub with pinkish fruit; many subspecies or varieties)

Holonyms ("Euonymus" is a member of...):

Celastraceae; family Celastraceae; spindle-tree family; staff-tree family (trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits)