cornus obliqua

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   shrub of eastern North America closely resembling silky cornel

   Synonymssilky dogwood

   Broaderdogwood

Questions about cornus obliqua

What does cornus obliqua mean?

cornus obliqua means "shrub of eastern North America closely resembling silky cornel".

What is another word for cornus obliqua?

Close synonyms include 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 obliqua a common word?

cornus obliqua 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.