Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cornus, having flowers in clusters and hard dense wood, and often cultivated as ornamentals.
- noun A dogwood (Cornus florida) of eastern North America, having small greenish flowers surrounded by four large, showy white or pink bracts that resemble petals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tree of the genus Cornus; the cornel; especially, in Europe, the wild or male cornel, C. sanguinea. Also called
dogwood-tree . - noun The wood of trees of the genus Cornus.
- noun Any cornel-like shrub so called, as in England the Euonymus Europœus.
- noun Pomaderris apetala, a small rhamnaceous tree of Tasmania, yielding a beautiful satiny wood suitable for carving and turning. See
Pomaderris . - noun The poison sumac, Rhus Vernix.
- noun The hop-tree, Ptelea trifoliata.
- noun Same as
Jamaica *dogwood .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes.
- noun A papilionaceous tree (
Piscidia erythrina ) growing in Jamaica. It has narcotic properties; -- called alsoJamaica dogwood .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various small trees of the genus
Cornus , especially the wild cornel and the flowering cornel - noun The wood of such trees and shrubs.
- noun A wood or tree similar to this genus, used in different parts of the world.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers
- noun hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood
Etymologies
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Examples
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In fact, the dogwood is a poignant reminder of the hundred-year gap between the first and second incarnations of this garden.
A Brand-New Olmsted 2001
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In fact, the dogwood is a poignant reminder of the hundred-year gap between the first and second incarnations of this garden.
A Brand-New Olmsted 2001
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The man sitting alone in the shade of a small dogwood is equally unaware.
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Our dogwood is filled with white blossoms though, and I know the geese will be laying eggs.
Sprung! 2008
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Actually, I thought it was a dogwood from the flowers, but only recalled seeing them before some 30 yrs ago, while growing up here in the Pacific Northwest.
Dogwood Fruit aka TBTAM 2007
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There are stately pine forests extending along the centre of the island; but the most beautiful of its trees are what are commonly called dogwood, the laurel, and a delicate species of the white oak.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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The berry of the round-leaved dogwood is of a very delicate blue.
Rural Hours 1887
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Carolyn Gail, thanks, I also thought the dogwood was our tree, but was corrected and now know it is the tulip poplar.
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The dogwood is a seedling from our first Tennessee house, one of several herethat are now flowering size.
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When "the leaf of the dogwood is the size of a squirrel's ear," it is planting time.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children Mabel Powers
slumry commented on the word dogwood
Arf, arf, Stephen says every time he passes one. (sorry)
July 12, 2007
bilby commented on the word dogwood
Tree with good bark =-/
December 31, 2023