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vi·bur·num

(vī-bûr′nəm)

Any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Viburnum, having opposite leaves, showy terminal clusters of small white or pink flowers, and red or black drupes.

[New Latin Vīburnum, genus name, from Latin vīburnum, a kind of shrub.]

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viburnum

(vaɪˈbɜːnəm)

1. (Plants) any of various temperate and subtropical caprifoliaceous shrubs or trees of the genus Viburnum, such as the wayfaring tree, having small white flowers and berry-like red or black fruits

2. (Plants) the dried bark of several species of this tree, sometimes used in medicine

[C18: from Latin: wayfaring tree]

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vi•bur•num

(vaɪˈbɜr nəm)

n.

any shrub of the genus Viburnum, of the honeysuckle family, many having showy white flower clusters, as the snowball.

[1725–35; < Latin: wayfaring tree (Viburnum lantana)]

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

genus Viburnum

asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs

Caprifoliaceae, family Caprifoliaceae, honeysuckle family - shrubs and small trees and woody vines

American cranberry bush, cranberry bush, highbush cranberry, Viburnum trilobum, cranberry tree - deciduous North American shrub or small tree having three-lobed leaves and red berries

twist wood, twistwood, Viburnum lantana, wayfaring tree - vigorous deciduous European treelike shrub common along waysides; red berries turn black

crampbark, cranberry tree, European cranberry bush, European cranberrybush, guelder rose, Viburnum opulus - deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries

southern arrow wood, Viburnum dentatum, arrow wood - deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows

arrow wood, Viburnum recognitum - closely related to southern arrow wood; grows in the eastern United States from Maine to Ohio and Georgia

Viburnum prunifolium, black haw - upright deciduous shrub having frosted dark-blue fruit; east and east central North America

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viburnum

[vaɪˈbɜːnəm] N → viburno m

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