wayfaring tree

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wayfaring tree

A deciduous Eurasian shrub (Viburnum lantana) having cymes of white flowers and berries that turn from red to black.

[Short for wayfaring man's tree.]

wayfaring tree

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a caprifoliaceous shrub, Viburnum lantana, of Europe and W Asia, having white flowers and berries that turn from red to black

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Noun

wayfaring tree - vigorous deciduous European treelike shrub common along waysides; red berries turn black

twist wood, twistwood, Viburnum lantana

genus Viburnum, Viburnum - deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees: arrow-wood; wayfaring tree

bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

Translations

wayfaring tree [ˈweɪfɛərɪŋˌtriː] N → viburno m

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American cranberry bush arrow wood black haw Caprifoliaceae crampbark cranberry bush cranberry tree European cranberry bush European cranberrybush family Caprifoliaceae genus Viburnum guelder rose highbush cranberry honeysuckle family lantana southern arrow wood twist wood twistwood viburnum			I think of those images which burned their way into my visual memory over the past couple of days wandering in Gloucestershire: the dark mass that is the ancient tree trunk of the Tortworth chestnut; blood dripping from a wound on a ram's head; the shining silver Severn seen from the Cotswold edge; blue flowers of nettle-leaved bellflower and the red berries of a wayfaring tree. Country diary by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk There are two wild British species worth considering mainly for their red autumn leaves: Viburnum opulus, the guelder-rose, and Viburnum lantana, the wayfaring tree. Plant of the week: Viburnum; Send club diaries and gardening queries ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)			Way leave way of life Way of the cross Way of the rounds way out Way pane Way passenger way point Way shaft way station Way train Way warden way-cool Way-going Way-going crop Way-goose way-out Way-wise waybill Waybread Waybung Wayed Wayfare wayfarer wayfaring wayfaring tree Waygate Wayk Wayland Wayland the Smith waylay Waylayer wayleave wayleggo Wayless Wayleway Waymaker waymark waymarked Wayment Wayne Wayne Gretzky waypoint ways ways and means Ways and Means Committee Ways of God wayside wayward waywardness Waywiser			waybill waybill waybill waybill waybill waybills waybills waybills Waybread waybreads Waybung WAYC Waycross Waycross, Georgia WAYD WAYE Wayed Wayed Wayed Wayed WAYES Wayewoda WAYF Wayfare wayfarer wayfarer Wayfarers Wayfarers State Park wayfaring wayfaring wayfaring tree wayfaring trees wayfaring trees Wayfaring-tree WayFinder Experience Wayfinding Agents for Locating Distributed Objects WAYG Waygate WAYGD Wayi Wayikra Wayikra Wayikra Rabbah WAYJO Wayk WAYLA waylaid waylaid Wayland Wayland Wayland Baptist University Wayland Board of Health Wayland Smith Wayland Smith Wayland Student Press Network Wayland the Smith Wayland the Smith Wayland Union Education Foundation Wayland, Francis waylay waylay

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