viburnum opulus

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   deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries

   Synonymsguelder roseEuropean cranberrybushEuropean cranberry bushcrampbarkcranberry tree

   Broadershrub

   Part ofViburnum

Questions about viburnum opulus

What does viburnum opulus mean?

viburnum opulus means "deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries".

What is another word for viburnum opulus?

Close synonyms include guelder rose, European cranberrybush, European cranberry bush, crampbark, cranberry tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is viburnum opulus a common word?

viburnum opulus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.