silky cornel

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   shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit

   Synonymssilky dogwoodCornus amomum

   Broaderdogwood

Questions about silky cornel

What does silky cornel mean?

silky cornel means "shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit".

What is another word for silky cornel?

Close synonyms include silky dogwood, Cornus amomum. 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 silky cornel a common word?

silky cornel 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.