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prickwood

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *h₁weydʰh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *widuz✻
  3. inherited from *widu✻
  4. inherited from wudu
  5. inherited from wode
  6. compounded as prickwood — “prick + wood”

Definitions

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

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