ProbableNamed through a historical place-name
guelder rose
noun · first attested 16th century
Not a rose, and the "Guelders" in the name is a vanished Dutch duchy.
A European shrub with flat white flower heads and translucent red berries, Viburnum opulus.
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- Relationship
- Named through a historical place-name
- Confidence
- ProbableThe conventional story is likely, with caveats.
- Attested
- 16th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Gelderland
- In English
guelder rose
The snowball-flowered garden form was propagated by Dutch nurserymen in the duchy of Guelders and reached England in the 1500s carrying its source's name. The duchy is now the province of Gelderland, and the wild shrub grows across Europe, Britain included.
Netherlands
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