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Viburnum definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees: arrow-wood; wayfaring tree [syn: Viburnum, genus Viburnum]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, a viburnum Date: circa 1731 any of a genus (Viburnum) of widely distributed shrubs or small trees of the honeysuckle family with simple leaves and white or sometimes pink cymose flowers

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Bot. any shrub of the genus Viburnum, usu. with white flowers, e.g. the guelder rose and wayfaring-tree. Etymology: L, = wayfaring-tree

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Viburnum Vi*bur"num, n. [L., the wayfaring tree.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.