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guelder rose|ˈgɛldərəʊz|
Forms: 6 gelders, 7 gilder, 7–8 gelder, 8 guilder, gueldre, 9 guelder. Also 7–8 gelderland rose.
[Named from Guelders (a town in Germany, on the borders of Holland) or Guelderland (a province of Holland, formerly a German duchy of which Guelders was the capital); so Du. Geldersche roos, G. Gelderische rose, F. rose de Gueldre, It. rosa di Gueldra, Sp. rosa de Gueldres.]
The plant Viburnum Opulus, esp. the cultivated form, bearing globular bunches of white flowers; the snowball-tree. Also, the flower of this plant.
1597Gerarde Herbal iii. lxxii. 1237 The Rose Elder is called in Latine Sambucus Rosea, and Sambucus aquatica..in English Gelders Rose, and Rose Elder. 1653Plat Gard. Eden 150 So of the tree that beareth a white flower as big as a rose, called the Gelderland-rose. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 103/1 Gilder rose, or Marsh Elder,..the flowers..being set many together in a round tuft or ball on the top of the young branches. 1796C. Marshall Garden. xix. (1798) 307 Gueldre rose, often called snow-ball tree. 1816Scott Fam. Lett. 23 Dec. (1894) I. 388 A strange secluded ravine full of old thorn trees, hazels, guelder roses, willows, and so forth. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i (1863) 148 Guelder-roses, pionies, tulips, stocks—hanging down like chandeliers among the dancers. 1855Browning Lovers' Quarrel xviii, Heaps of the guelder-rose. 1882Garden 3 June 391/3 Boughs of Guelder Rose. |