Viburnum Definition

vī-bûrnəm
viburnums
noun
Any of a large genus (Viburnum) of shrubs or small trees of the honeysuckle family, with white flowers.
Webster's New World
The bark of several species of this plant, sometimes used in medicine.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • genus Viburnum
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Adoxaceae "” the viburnums.

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Other Word Forms of Viburnum

Noun

Singular:
viburnum
Plural:
viburnums

Origin of Viburnum

  • New Latin Vīburnum genus name from Latin vīburnum a kind of shrub

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • New Latin from Latin viburnum (“the wayfaring-tree, Viburnum lantana")

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin viburnum, itself an Etruscan loanword.

    From Wiktionary

Viburnum Sentence Examples

  • In Sambucus and Viburnum the small white flowers are massed in heads; honey is secreted at the base of the styles and, the tube of the flower being very short, is exposed to the visits of flies and insects with short probosces.

  • Among forest shrubs are the willow, hazel, alder, shrub maple, birch, hawthorn, dogwood, elderberry, viburnum and snowberry.

  • The most abundant species of this forest were the oaks and chestnuts, of which a dozen have been collected; laurels, Viburnum, ivy, several Aralias, Dewalquea, a Thuja and several Ferns may be added.

  • Dicotyledonous leaves are not plentiful, the genera recorded being Andromeda, Cinnamomum, Zizyphus, Rhus, Viburnum.

  • At Rosemoor are collections of Cornus and Ilex, while Hyde Hall holds the collections of Malus (ornamental crab apple) and Viburnum.

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