cornu : Idioms & Phrases

Cor"nu Am*mo"nis

Etymology

L., horn of Ammon. See Ammonite.

Wordforms

plural Cornua Ammonis

Definitions

1. (Paleon.) A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite.

Webster 1913

• noun shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit
  silky dogwood; silky cornel.
  

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• noun creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska
  bunchberry; dwarf cornel; pudding berry; crackerberry.
  

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• noun deciduous tree; celebrated for its large white or pink bracts and stunning autumn color that is followed by red berries
  eastern flowering dogwood; common white dogwood.
  

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• noun deciduous European shrub or small tree having bright red fruit
  cornelian cherry.
  

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• noun shrub of eastern North America closely resembling silky cornel
  silky dogwood.
  

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• noun European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers
  common European dogwood; pedwood; blood-twig; red dogwood.
  

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• noun common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers
  red osier dogwood; American dogwood; redbrush; red dogwood; red osier.
  

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• noun a rosid dicot genus of the family Cornaceae including: dogwood; cornel: perennial chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of temperate regions of northern hemisphere
  Cornus.
  

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