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VIBURNUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

genus Viburnum; Viburnum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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