/ English Dictionary

RED 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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("red dogwood" is a kind of...):

cornel; dogwood; dogwood tree (a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers

Synonyms:

blood-twig; common European dogwood; Cornus sanguinea; pedwood; red dogwood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("red dogwood" is a kind of...):

cornel; dogwood; dogwood tree (a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers)

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