dogwood

dog·wood  (dôgwd, dg-)

n. In both senses also called flowering dogwood.

1. A tree (Cornus florida) of eastern North America, having small greenish flowers surrounded by four large, showy white or pink bracts that resemble petals.

2. Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Cornus.

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Noun	1.	dogwood - a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers cornel, dogwood tree 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 dogwood - hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood 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 osier, red osier dogwood, redbrush, red dogwood - 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 angiospermous tree, flowering tree - any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary
	2.	dogwood - hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood cornel, dogwood, dogwood tree - a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees