Wiktionary
n. A cultivated plant, ''Viburnum opulus'', having small white flowers.
WordNet
n. deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries [syn: European cranberrybush, European cranberry bush, crampbark, cranberry tree, Viburnum opulus]
Usage examples of "guelder rose".
Herbalists talk about Jalap and Black Haw, but to the uninitiated Bindweed and Guelder Rose are far more familiar, and it is under these names that they will be found in this herbal.
Two horizons: the first, an ochrous line of scrub, marked the limit of the foreground, so near that he could distinguish even from here the few late blossoms on the branches of the gorse and the guelder rose.
The blushing dog rose had shed her petals and given birth amongst her thorn bed to scarlet hips: her blood scattered amongst the darkening foliage, mingling with the darker drops from the guelder rose whose leaves were already sere, and the gnarled hawthorn branches smeared with crimson.
Hearing noise, he shinned over the wall, landing in a guelder rose bush at the back of a large tent.