dogwood

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The mosses and the lichens have proceeded far enough in their work of disintegration to provide substance for the slender red stem of dogwood, which is growing out of the soil they have made.

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  1. noun 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. noun Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Cornus.

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  • She'd told me about pine and kudzu, red clay and dogwood--Looks like a blizzard, come the spring. —  Omni: October 1994
  • Flowering dogwood is among the most popular of all flowering trees in the landscape in North America. —  RNews - TOP STORIES
  • Willow and dogwood are good options for these projects, she says.
  • The path winds across fields of tall grass and wildflowers and then tunnels through thick stands of dogwood, pecan, and oak trees.
  • Others, such as the dogwood flower or crucifix fish of the Gulf Coast, are localized. —  SunHerald.com: Featured Story
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  1. apparently from dog + wood. Some suppose dogwood, as applied to the wood of trees of the genus Cornus, to be a corruption of *dagwood (from dag + wood), a name equivalent to its other names, prick-wood, skewer-wood, so called because, being firm, hard, and smooth, it is used to make butchers' skewers; but the form *dagwood is not found, and in this, as well as in its other applications (see def. 3), and in similar popular names of plants, it is not necessary to assume a definite intention in the use of the animal name.
 

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