dogwood tree

1. 1.

   a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers

   Synonymsdogwoodcornel

   Broaderangiospermous tree

   Narrowercommon white dogwoodred osiersilky dogwoodsilky cornelcommon European dogwoodbunchberrycornelian cherry

   Part ofCornus

Questions about dogwood tree

What does dogwood tree mean?

dogwood tree means "a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers".

What is another word for dogwood tree?

Close synonyms include dogwood, cornel. 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 dogwood tree a common word?

dogwood tree 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.