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Wayfaring tree
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viburnum
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Viburnum is a genus of about 150–175 species of shrubs or (in a few species) small trees in the moschatel family, Adoxaceae . Its current classification is based on molecular phylogeny . It was previously included in the family Caprifoliaceae . The member ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International 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.
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 825 Housing Units (2000): 325 Land area (2000): 1.722485 sq. miles (4.461215 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.007455 sq. miles (0.019308 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.729940 sq. miles (4.480523 sq. km) FIPS code: 76012 Located within: Missouri ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
genus of shrubs widespread in Eurasia and North America, the wayfaring-tree, 1731, from Latin viburnum , which is said to be probably an Etruscan word.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. any of many shrubs and trees, of the genus ''Viburnum'', native to the Northern Hemisphere that have showy clusters of flowers
Usage examples of viburnum.
I think of a semi-formal arrangement of rhodies and azaleas, lilacs and viburnum, with a potentilla perhaps, or a butterfly bush for late summer color.
The dead trunks lay one across the other, and were shrouded in thickets of viburnum, spirea, and elderberry, tangled further with ivy and thorny Devil’.