Viburnum meaning

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.
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Any of a large genus (Viburnum) of shrubs or small trees of the honeysuckle family, with white flowers.
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The bark of several species of this plant, sometimes used in medicine.
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Any of many shrubs and trees, of the genus Viburnum, native to the Northern Hemisphere that have showy clusters of flowers.
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A taxonomic genus within the family Adoxaceae "” the viburnums.
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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.

  • Several genera afford ornamental plants; such are Lonicera, erect shrubs or twiners with long-tubed white, yellow or red flowers; Symphoricarpus, a North American shrub, with small whitish pendulous flowers and white berries; Diervilla (also known as Weigelia), and Viburnum, including V.

  • Euonymus europaeus - Spindle Viburnum - Guelder Rose, &c.

  • Viburnum - Laurustinus.

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

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