guelder rose

English

Guelder rose, flowers left, fruit right

Alternative forms

gelder rose

Etymology

Named after the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands.

Noun

guelder rose (plural guelder roses)

A cultivated plant, Viburnum opulus, having small white flowers.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 799)
  My husband bought some guelder roses from an Albanian

Synonyms

(plant): water elder, European cranberry bush, cramp bark, snowball tree

Translations

guelder rose, snowball tree

Chinese:
Mandarin: 歐洲莢蒾, 欧洲荚蒾 (Ōuzhōu jiámí)
Dutch: gelderse roos f
Finnish: koiranheisi (fi)
French: obier (fr) f
Georgian: ძახველი (ʒaxveli)
German: Schneeball (de) m

Hungarian: kányabangita (hu)
Japanese: カンボク (kanboku), テマリカンボク (temarikanboku)
Lithuanian: putinas m
Polish: kalina (pl) f
Romanian: călin (ro) m
Russian: кали́на (ru) f (kalína)
Ukrainian: кали́на f (kalýna)

See also

guelder rose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Viburnum opulus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Viburnum opulus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Viburnum opulus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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