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wayfaring tree

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wayfaring tree

–noun
1. a Eurasian shrub, Viburnum lantana, of the honeysuckle family, having finely toothed, ovate leaves and branching clusters of white flowers, growing along roadsides and cultivated as an ornamental in North America.
2. the hobblebush.

Origin:
1590–1600; short for wayfaring man's tree
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wayfaring tree  
n.  A deciduous Eurasian shrub (Viburnum lantana) having cymes of white flowers and berries that turn from red to black.

[Short for wayfaring man's tree.]
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