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cornel
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cornel
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cornel has 1 sense
- cornel(n = noun.plant) dogwood, dogwood tree - a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers; Array is a member of cornus, genus cornus
has particulars: common white dogwood, cornus florida, eastern flowering dogwood, american dogwood, cornus stolonifera, red dogwood, red osier, red osier dogwood, redbrush, cornus obliqua, silky dogwood, cornus amomum, silky cornel, silky dogwood, blood-twig, common european dogwood, cornus sanguinea, pedwood, red dogwood, bunchberry, cornus canadensis, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry, cornelian cherry, cornus mas
is a kind of angiospermous tree, flowering tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
cornel, n. [OF. cornille, cornoille, F. cornouille, cornel berry, LL. cornolium cornel tree, fr. L. cornus, fr. cornu horn, in allusion to the hardness of the wood. See Horn.].
- The cornelian cherry (
Cornus Mas ), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries. [1913 Webster] - Any species of the genus
Cornus , asCornus florida , the flowering cornel;Cornus stolonifera , the osier cornel;Cornus Canadensis , the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cornel, n. any plant of the genus Cornus, esp. a dwarf kind, C. suecica.
Etymology
ME f. L cornus
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