(n) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows, Syn. Viburnum dentatum, southern arrow wood
‖n. [ L., the wayfaring tree. ] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental plants, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose. [ 1913 Webster ]