viburnum Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees: arrow-wood; wayfaring tree
    genus Viburnum.

WordNet


Vi*bur"num noun
Etymology
L., the wayfaring tree.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.

Webster 1913