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wayfaring-tree
[Short for wayfaring man's tree (see above); cf. traveller's joy.]
1. The tall shrub Viburnum Lantana, with broad leaves downy underneath, white flowers in dense cymes, and green berries turning first red then black. It grows wild in hedges and underwood.
1597Gerarde Herbal iii. cxv. 1305 Of the Wayfaring tree. 1670Evelyn Sylva xxi. §19. (ed. 2) 101 The Viburnum, or Way-faring tree,..makes the most plyant and best bands to Fagot with. 1671–96Phillips, Weafering-tree. 1731Miller Gard. Dict., Viburnum; The Wayfaring or Pliant Mealy Tree. 1785Martyn Lett. Bot. xvii. (1794) 239. 1830 Howitt Bk. Seasons (1837) 117 Wayfaring tree! what ancient claim Hast thou to that right pleasant name? 1859W. S. Coleman Woodlands (1866) 121 The Wayfaring Tree, belonging to the same genus as the Guelder Rose, bears a considerable resemblance to that shrub, both in its flowers and berries; but in the leaves differs entirely.
2. U.S. The hobble-bush (V. lantanoides).
1814F. Pursh Flora Amer. Septentr. 711. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. U.S. (1860) 168. |