cornus amomum

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   shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit

   Synonymssilky cornelsilky dogwood

   Broaderdogwood

Questions about cornus amomum

What does cornus amomum mean?

cornus amomum means "shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit".

What is another word for cornus amomum?

Close synonyms include silky cornel, silky dogwood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cornus amomum a common word?

cornus amomum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.