guelder-rose

A form of guelder rose — A deciduous shrub (Viburnum opulus), having small white flowers.

Meanings

nounguelder-rose (plural guelder-roses)

plural guelder-roses

  1. alternativeAlternative form of guelder rose.

    The ground was fairly free of undergrowth, the anemones sprinkled, there was a bush or two, elder, or guelder-rose, and a purplish tangle of bramble:[…]

    1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 8, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020
Cite this entry
APA

guelder-rose. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guelder-rose

MLA

“guelder-rose.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guelder-rose. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “guelder-rose,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guelder-rose.

Source: guelder-rose on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.