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dwarf cornel

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dwarf cornel
n.
A herbaceous plant (Cornus canadensis) of northern North America, having creeping rhizomes, scarlet fruit, and inconspicuous greenish flowers surrounded by four white, petallike bracts. Also called bunchberry.
dwarf cornel
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) an arctic and subarctic cornaceous plant Cornus suecica, having small purple flowers surrounded by white petal-like bracts
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Noun1.dwarf cornel - creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shootsdwarf cornel - creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska
bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, crackerberry, pudding berry
cornel, dogwood, dogwood tree - a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers
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