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CORNEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers
Synonyms:
cornel; dogwood; dogwood tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cornel" is a kind of...):
angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)
Meronyms (substance of "cornel"):
dogwood (hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cornel"):
common white dogwood; Cornus florida; eastern flowering dogwood (deciduous tree; celebrated for its large white or pink bracts and stunning autumn color that is followed by red berries)
American dogwood; Cornus stolonifera; red dogwood; red osier; red osier dogwood; redbrush (common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers)
Cornus obliqua; silky dogwood (shrub of eastern North America closely resembling silky cornel)
Cornus amomum; silky cornel; silky dogwood (shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit)
blood-twig; common European dogwood; Cornus sanguinea; pedwood; red dogwood (European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers)
bunchberry; Cornus canadensis; crackerberry; dwarf cornel; pudding berry (creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska)
cornelian cherry; Cornus mas (deciduous European shrub or small tree having bright red fruit)
Holonyms ("cornel" is a member of...):
Cornus; genus Cornus (a rosid dicot genus of the family Cornaceae including: dogwood; cornel: perennial chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of temperate regions of northern hemisphere)
