dogwood : Idioms & Phrases

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alder dogwood

  • noun small tree common in Europe
    alder buckthorn; Rhamnus frangula.
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american dogwood

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

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

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

  • noun a rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia
    family Cornaceae; Cornaceae.
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Dogwood tree

  • noun a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers
    dogwood; cornel.
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  • . (a) The dogwood or Cornus . (b) A papilionaceous tree (Piscidia erythring) growing in Jamaica. It has narcotic properties; called also Jamaica dogwood.
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eastern flowering dogwood

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

  • noun evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans
    Sapindus saponaria; jaboncillo; China tree; chinaberry.
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jamaica dogwood

  • noun small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons
    Piscidia piscipula; Piscidia erythrina; fish fuddle.
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Poison dogwood

  • noun smooth American swamp shrub with pinnate leaves and greenish flowers followed by greenish white berries; yields an irritating oil
    Toxicodendron vernix; poison sumac; Rhus vernix; poison ash.
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  • (Bot.), poison sumac.
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red dogwood

  • noun European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers
    common European dogwood; pedwood; blood-twig; Cornus sanguinea.
  • noun common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers
    Cornus stolonifera; American dogwood; redbrush; red dogwood; red osier.
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red osier dogwood

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

  • noun shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit
    Cornus amomum; silky cornel.
  • noun shrub of eastern North America closely resembling silky cornel
    Cornus obliqua.
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striped dogwood

  • noun maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn
    Acer pennsylvanicum; moose-wood; moosewood; goosefoot maple; striped maple.
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