1. Deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows
   "Native Americans harvested arrow wood for their weapons";
   - southern arrow wood, Viburnum dentatum
    
2. Closely related to southern arrow wood; grows in the eastern United States from Maine to Ohio and Georgia
   "Arrow wood provides excellent cover for wildlife";
   - Viburnum recognitum

Derived forms: arrow woods

Type of: bush, shrub

Part of: genus Viburnum, Viburnum

Encyclopedia: Arrow wood