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.

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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.

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. 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 also Jamaica dogwood.

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.

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

"In fact, the dogwood is a poignant reminder of the hundred-year gap between the first and second incarnations of this garden."

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