Viburnum (original) (raw)
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees: arrow-wood; wayfaring tree
Synonyms:
genus Viburnum; Viburnum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Viburnum" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Viburnum"):
American cranberry bush; cranberry bush; cranberry tree; highbush cranberry; Viburnum trilobum (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)
arrow wood; southern arrow wood; Viburnum dentatum (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)
black haw; Viburnum prunifolium (upright deciduous shrub having frosted dark-blue fruit; east and east central North America)
Holonyms ("Viburnum" is a member of...):
Caprifoliaceae; family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle family (shrubs and small trees and woody vines)