red dogwood

Questions about red dogwood

What does red dogwood mean?

red dogwood means "European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for red dogwood?

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

red dogwood is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.