What is "spindle tree"

Prickwood \Prick"wood`\, n. (Bot.) A shrub ( Euonymus Europ[ae]us); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.

n. Certain trees belonging to the ''Euonymus'' genus, a group of flowering plants in the (vern: staff vine) family; euonymus, spindle

n. any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries [syn: spindleberry, spindleberry tree]