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AMERICAN DOGWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American dogwood mean? 

AMERICAN DOGWOOD (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN DOGWOOD has 1 sense:

1. common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowersplay

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN DOGWOOD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AMERICAN DOGWOOD (noun)


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Meaning:

Common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American dogwood; Cornus stolonifera; red dogwood; red osier; red osier dogwood; redbrush

Hypernyms ("American dogwood" is a kind of...):

cornel; dogwood; dogwood tree (a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers)


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