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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of plants of the natural order Cornaceæ, consisting of shrubs, trees, or rarely herbs, with usually small white or yellowish flowers and ovoid drupes. There are about 25 species, mostly of the northern hemisphere, 15 belonging to the United States. The bark, especially of the root, has tonic and slightly stimulant properties, and is used as a remedy in intermittent fevers, etc. The flowering dogwoods, C. florida of the Atlantic States and C. Nuttallii on the Pacific coast, are small trees and very ornamental, having the small cyme surrounded by a large and conspicuous involucre of four white bracts. The wood is very hard, close-grained, and tough, and is used as a substitute for boxwood for making bobbins and shuttles for weaving, and also in cabinetwork. Some of the species, as C. Canadensis (the bunch-berry) and C. Suecica, are dwarfed and herbaceous, with similar showy flowers followed by clusters of red berries. See
cornel .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a rosid dicot genus of the family Cornaceae including: dogwood; cornel: perennial chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of temperate regions of northern hemisphere
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“WHERE: Variegated redtwig dogwood, also known as cornus alba Elegantissima, is extremely adaptable and grows in a range of soil types from clay to sand, wet to dry, once established.”
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“Shrubs grown for their coloured stems (such as cornus and willows) can be cut back to ground level now.”
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“Turning to the bewildered crowd in the rear, she explained with a vigor that set her bandanna "cornus" quivering: "Yassum, dese eyes done seen dat very man he talk about - de onliest man what could set us free.”
“Vines, cornus, willow, buddleia and fig will be rooted by spring and ready for potting by mid-summer.”
“If the cornus are not for your area, there will be plenty of other things, like the willows that should grow for you.”
“I particularly like the first shot of the cornus –”
“We had some issues with the variegated cornus, but these green leaf types are doing much better.”
“And maybe a couple more cornus, they have a big shipment that just arrived at the local big box store.”
“Love the colours of the maples and cornus – I think they are brighter than those I have here – perhaps they are effected by the very cold winters you have?”
“I believe we are on the edge of the range for the bright stemmed cornus, they would be more colorful if we were colder.”
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