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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 guelder rose, St John’s wort, the Nepenthes distillatoria or pitcher plant, violets, geraniums, buttercups, sundews, ladies’ mantles and campanulas thrive by the side of Magnoliaceae, Ranunculaceae, Elaeocarpeae, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

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

The cliffs bristle crest high with rigid firs, the young oak copse is entangled with an undergrowth of guelder rose, and in the sedges near the heron-frequented reeds, white water lilies open their wonderful eyes.

From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Robert Lloyd Praeger

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

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

An open wood, chiefly of dwarf oak, and shrubs such as the wayfaring tree, the guelder-rose, and the fly-honeysuckle, now stretches along the opposite side of the gorge.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker

I found a pretty cottage with a lawn running down to the stream, and a perfect jungle of guelder-rose and lilac flanking the path.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

How quiet it was and how fragrant and dim! one could scarcely distinguish between the dewy glimmer of turf and the dark island-like thickets of guelder-rose and other flowering shrubs.

From Nightfall by Anthony Pryde

It looked even prettier than its wont just then, that town of villas, in the first fresh tenderness of its wan spring foliage, the first full flush of lilac, laburnum, horse-chestnut, and guelder-rose.

From The British Barbarians by Grant Allen

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