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  guelder rose

  noun

  a shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the honeysuckle family, native to the Old World, having broad clusters of white flowers and scarlet fruit.
• guelder-rose
  guelder-rose

  noun

  a Eurasian caprifoliaceous shrub, Viburnum opulus, with clusters of white flowers and small red fruits

guelder rose

American  

[gel-der rohz] / ˈgɛl dər ˌroʊz /

noun

1. a shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the honeysuckle family, native to the Old World, having broad clusters of white flowers and scarlet fruit.

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guelder-rose British  

/ ˈɡɛldəˌrəʊz /

noun

1. a Eurasian caprifoliaceous shrub, Viburnum opulus, with clusters of white flowers and small red fruits

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Etymology

Origin of guelder rose

First recorded in 1590–1600; after Guelders

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The American guelder rose, whose fruit so strongly resembles the cranberry, is also common.

From Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 by John Franklin

On the bank stood purple torches of dame's violet, and the dog-rose climbing upon the guelder rose was pictured with it in the water.

From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker

The woody shoots of the guelder rose are manufactured into various small articles in Sweden and Russia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

The bush on which this cranberry grows resembles the guelder rose.

From The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

The guelder rose bears juicy, red, elliptical berries, 1⁄3 in. long, which ripen in September, and contain each a single compressed seed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

Near by, a laburnum drooped in shower of gold over a bush of delicate white guelder-rose as Zeus over Danæ.

From Swirling Waters by Max Rittenberg

Then, too, dried mushrooms, strawberries, mulberries, pears and wild apples, the berries of the guelder-rose and hawthorn furnish the peasant so many small harvests which yield him a modest and certain profit.

From Iermola by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski

Little guelder-rose, with pinkish azure bloom, And merry little company, where my dear one doth drink; My darling will not drink, until for me he sends.

From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood

And it is impossible to bear with the guelder-rose—the guelder-rose must be adored.

From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield

At the sides of the house were bushes of lilac and guelder-rose and privet, entirely hiding the farm buildings behind.

From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence