viburnum

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: vi=bur=num

CIDE DICTIONARY

viburnum, n. [L., the wayfaring tree.].

 A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental plants, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

viburnum, n. Bot. any shrub of the genus Viburnum, usu. with white flowers, e.g. the guelder rose and wayfaring-tree.

Etymology

L, = wayfaring-tree