cornus sanguinea

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   European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers

   Synonymscommon European dogwoodred dogwoodblood-twigpedwood

   Broaderdogwood

Questions about cornus sanguinea

What does cornus sanguinea mean?

cornus sanguinea means "European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers".

What is another word for cornus sanguinea?

Close synonyms include common European dogwood, red dogwood, blood-twig, pedwood. 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 sanguinea a common word?

cornus sanguinea 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.