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AMERICAN DOGWOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers
Synonyms:
American dogwood; Cornus stolonifera; red dogwood; red osier; red osier dogwood; redbrush
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Hypernyms ("American dogwood" is a kind of...):
cornel; dogwood; dogwood tree (a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers)