cornel

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Oi was in the Furren Laygion in South Ameriky, an' my cornel was the foinest man you iver see.

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  1. noun Any of various plants of the genus Cornus, which includes the bunchberry and dogwoods.

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  • Oi was in the Furren Laygion in South Ameriky, an' my cornel was the foinest man you iver see. —  Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life
  • Of braken and dwarf-cornel, and again —  Lundy's Lane and Other Poems
  • I love an ash arrow pierced with cornel-wood for a roving shaft. " —  The White Company
  • How many he had taken before I marked him, and how many more he took after I lost him among the other birds, I cannot say; but, standing up in the skiff, I followed him around and around until he made his nineteenth splash,--in less than half as many minutes,--when I got so groggy that his twentieth splash I came near taking with him The pond narrows toward the head, and just before it becomes a creek again the channel turns abruptly through the docks in against the right shore, where the current curls and dimples darkly under the drooping branches of great red maple; then it horseshoes into the middle, coming down through small bush-islands and tangled brush which deepen into an extensive swamp June seemed a little tardy here, but the elder, the rose, and the panicled cornel were almost ready, the button-bushes were showing ivory, while the arrow-wood, fully open, was glistening snowily everywhere, its tiny flower crowns falling and floating in patches down-stream, its over-sweet breath hanging heavy in the morning mist. —  Roof and Meadow
  • June seemed a little tardy here, but the elder, the rose, and the panicled cornel were almost ready, the button-bushes were showing ivory, while the arrow-wood, fully open, was glistening snowily everywhere, its tiny flower crowns falling and floating in patches down-stream, its over-sweet breath hanging heavy in the morning mist. —  Roof and Meadow
 

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  1. Short for German Kornelbaum, cornel tree (from Middle High German kurnelboum, from Old High German kurnilboum) or from French cornouille, both from Medieval Latin corniola, from diminutive of Latin cornus.

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  1. Early modern English cornell, cornill; = Dutch kornoelje = Old High German cornul (cornulboum), German kornelle = Danish kornel(-træ) = Swedish kornel(-bär), from Old French cornille, cornoille, carnoaille, French cornouille = Spanish cornejo (cf. Portuguese corniso) = Italian corniolo, from Middle Latin cornolium, cornel-tree, corniola, cornel-berry, with terminations of diminutive form, from Latin cornus, a cornel-tree (cornum, the cornel-fruit) (whence by adaptation Anglo-Saxon corn-treów, cornel-tree), from cornu = English horn: in reference to the hardness of the wood.
 

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