cornel
Noun
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A tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers (synset 112967609)
is a type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree - any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovarysubtypes:
- common white dogwood, cornus florida, eastern flowering dogwood - deciduous tree; celebrated for its large white or pink bracts and stunning autumn color that is followed by red berries
- american dogwood, cornus stolonifera, red dogwood, red osier, red osier dogwood, redbrush - common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers
- cornus obliqua, silky dogwood - shrub of eastern North America closely resembling silky cornel
- cornus amomum, silky cornel, silky dogwood - shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit
- blood-twig, common european dogwood, cornus sanguinea, pedwood, red dogwood - European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers
- bunchberry, cornus canadensis, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry - creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska
- cornelian cherry, cornus mas - deciduous European shrub or small tree having bright red fruit
belongs to: cornus, genus cornus - a rosid dicot genus of the family Cornaceae including: dogwood; cornel: perennial chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of temperate regions of northern hemispheresubstance holonym: dogwood - hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwoodsame as: dogwood, dogwood tree
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