the wayfaring-tree

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• Wayfaring tree — Wayfaring Way far ing, a. Traveling; passing; being on a journey. A wayfaring man. Judg. xix. 17. [1913 Webster] {Wayfaring tree} (Bot.), a European shrub ({Viburnum lantana}) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• American wayfaring tree — Wayfaring Way far ing, a. Traveling; passing; being on a journey. A wayfaring man. Judg. xix. 17. [1913 Webster] {Wayfaring tree} (Bot.), a European shrub ({Viburnum lantana}) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• wayfaring tree — 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. [1590… …   Universalium

• Wayfaring — Way far ing, a. Traveling; passing; being on a journey. A wayfaring man. Judg. xix. 17. [1913 Webster] {Wayfaring tree} (Bot.), a European shrub ({Viburnum lantana}) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers. {American… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• meal-tree — mealˈ tree noun The wayfaring tree, from its mealy leaves and shoots • • • Main Entry: ↑meal …   Useful english dictionary

• cotton tree — noun 1. : any of various trees belonging to the genera Bombax and Ceiba; especially : ceiba 2a 2. : wayfaring tree 1 3. : either of two cottonwoods ( …   Useful english dictionary

• Down by the Salley Gardens — (Irish: Gort na Saileán) is a poem by William Butler Yeats published in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems in 1889. Yeats indicated in a note that it was an attempt to reconstruct an old song from three lines imperfectly remembered by an old …   Wikipedia

• Cycle of the West — A Cycle of the West is a collection of five epic poems (called Songs ) written and published over a nearly thirty year span by John G. Neihardt. As one extended work of literature, the Cycle treats historical topics from the American settlement… …   Wikipedia

• viburnum — /vuy berr neuhm/, n. 1. any of numerous shrubs or trees belonging to the genus Viburnum, of the honeysuckle family, certain species of which, as the cranberry bush, V. opulus, or snowball, are cultivated for ornament. 2. the dried bark of various …   Universalium

• viburnum — /vəˈbɜnəm / (say vuh bernuhm) noun 1. any of the shrubs or small trees constituting the genus Viburnum, species of which, as V. opulus, the snowball tree, are cultivated for ornament. 2. the dried bark of various species of Viburnum, used in… …  

• Denys Watkins-Pitchford — Denys James Watkins Pitchford MBE (25 July 1905 – 8 September 1990) was a British naturalist, children s writer, and illustrator who wrote under the pseudonym BB . Contents 1 Early life 1.1 His books 2 Later years …   Wikipedia