dogwood

1. 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 ovary
   subtypes:

   • 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 hemisphere
   substance holonym: dogwood - hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood
   same as: cornel, dogwood tree
2. Hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus;
   Resembles boxwood (synset 112967931)
   is a type of: wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
   substance meronym: cornel, dogwood, dogwood tree - a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers

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