Definition of Opulus

1. the guelder-rose [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Opulus

optotype
optotypes
optrode
optrodes
optronic
optronics
opts
opts in
opts out
opulence
opulences
opulencies
opulency
opulent
opulently
opulus (current term)
opuluses
opuntia
opuntias
opus
opus operatum
opus spicatum
opuscle
opuscles
opuscula
opuscular
opuscule
opuscules
opusculum
opuses

Literary usage of Opulus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1803)
"VIBURNUM opulus. Common Guelder-rose, or Water Elder. ... opulus. Raii Syn. 460. .L HIS shrub is common in woods and hedges in watery places, ..."

2. Essentials of materia medica, therapeutics and prescription writing by Henry Morris, Sir Henry Morris, Walter Arthur Bastedo (1906)
"What is viburnum opulus ? It is the bark of V. opulus, cramp bark (Fam. ... (fluid extract of viburnum opulus) ; dose, 3ss-ij (2-8 cc). ..."

3. Origin and History of All the Pharmacopeial Vegetable Drugs, Chemicals and by John Uri Lloyd (1921)
"High cranberry, Viburnum opulus, known also as cramp bark, ... The leaves of Viburnum opulus and other species of Viburnum were used by the Indians as a tea ..."

4. The Woman's Book: Dealing Practically with the Modern Conditions of Home (1894)
"I have a great fancy for planting a single group at a favorable point, of one The Common Snowball ( Viburnum opulus sterilis). practice. ..."

5. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"Lycium barbarum, etc., is an old plant, but very pretty, especially when trailing over rock- -,-. -, -, -, VIBURNUM opulus. ..."

6. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1902)
"Viburnum opulus. High Cranberry Bush. Cramp Bark. Water Elder. (The Gueldres Rose, or Snowball-tree of our gardens, is the cultivated and sterile variety. ..."

7. The Microanalysis of Powdered Vegetable Drugs by Albert Schneider (1921)
"VIBURNUM opulus. Cramp Bark. Fl. ex. 60. ... G. Obier, Fr. The bark of Viburnum opulus L., ... opulus."

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