silky dogwood

Questions about silky dogwood

What does silky dogwood mean?

silky dogwood means "shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for silky dogwood?

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

silky 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.