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    VIBURNUM

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    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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