wayfaring tree

American  

[wey-fair-ing tree] / ˈweɪˌfɛər ɪŋ ˌtri /

noun

1. British, whitten.  a Eurasian shrub, Viburnum lantana, of the honeysuckle family, having finely toothed, ovate leaves and branching clusters of white flowers, growing along roadsides and cultivated as an ornamental in North America.

2. the hobblebush.

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wayfaring tree British  

noun

1. a caprifoliaceous shrub, Viburnum lantana, of Europe and W Asia, having white flowers and berries that turn from red to black

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Etymology

Origin of wayfaring tree

First recorded in 1590–1600; short for wayfaring man's tree

Example Sentences

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wayfaring tree

“That’ll be good enough at a pinch,” said Bigwig, munching clover and sniffing at the fallen bloom from a wayfaring tree.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Among the many berries of autumn those of the wayfaring tree may be known by their flattened shape, as if the sides had been pressed in like a flask.

From The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies

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

Another member of the genus, Viburnum, Lantana, wayfaring tree, is found in dry copses and hedges in England, except in the north.

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

Yet every English shrub and bush is here; the hawthorn, the dogwood, the wayfaring tree, gorse and broom, and here is a round plot of heather.

From Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies