: a highbush cranberry (Viburnum opulus) of Eurasia and northern Africa
especially
: a cultivated form with large roundish heads of usually white sterile flowers
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Many of the students chose to decorate their cards with patriotic themes like Ukrainian flags and the guelder rose, one of the national symbols of Ukraine.
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
Unlike other, fancier-sounding plants—lady’s mantle, love-lies-bleeding, guelder rose—the sunflower, without apparent effort, conjures up a world of warmth and light with two and a half simple syllables.
—Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2020
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
Unlike other, fancier-sounding plants—lady’s mantle, love-lies-bleeding, guelder rose—the sunflower, without apparent effort, conjures up a world of warmth and light with two and a half simple syllables.
—Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2020
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“Guelder rose.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guelder%20rose. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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