prickwood

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From prick +‎ wood, so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs.

Noun

prickwood (usually uncountable, plural prickwoods)

1. (archaic) A shrub (Euonymus europaeus), the spindle tree.

References

• “prickwood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.