prickwood

English

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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.

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