guelder rose

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)

1. A deciduous shrub (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

Armenian: բռնչի (hy) (bṙnčʿi), ձնագնդի (hy) (jnagndi) Belarusian: калі́на f (kalína) Bulgarian: кали́на (bg) f (kalína) Chinese: Mandarin: 歐洲莢蒾／欧洲荚蒾 (Ōuzhōu jiámí) Czech: kalina (cs) f Dutch: gelderse roos (nl) f Finnish: koiranheisi (fi) French: obier (fr) f Galician: lamagueiro m, frol do mundo f, bola de neve f Georgian: ძახველი (ʒaxveli) German: Schneeball (de) m Hungarian: kányabangita (hu) Italian: pallone di maggio m, palla di neve f, oppio (it) m Japanese: カンボク (kanboku), テマリカンボク (temarikanboku) Lithuanian: putinas m Polish: kalina (pl) f Portuguese: noveleiro (pt) m Romanian: călin (ro) m Russian: кали́на (ru) f (kalína) Slovak: kalina f Ukrainian: кали́на f (kalýna)

References

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