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Dogwood

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Noun

1. cornel, dogwood, dogwood tree

a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers

2. dogwood

hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dogwood

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noun
any of various cornaceous trees or shrubs of the genus Cornus, esp C. sanguinea, a European shrub with clusters of small white flowers and black berries: the shoots are red in winter

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Dogwood

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adjective
1. 
designating a family (Cornaceae, order Cornales) of dicotyledonous small trees and shrubs
noun
2. 
any of a genus (Cornus) of trees and shrubs of the dogwood family, esp. the flowering dogwood
3. 
its hard, closegrained wood

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Dogwood

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n.
1. Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cornus, having flowers in clusters and hard dense wood, and often cultivated as ornamentals.
2. A dogwood (Cornus florida) of eastern North America, having small greenish flowers surrounded by four large, showy white or pink bracts that resemble petals. Also called flowering dogwood.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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