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CORNUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cornus mean? 

CORNUS (noun)
  The noun CORNUS has 1 sense:

1. a rosid dicot genus of the family Cornaceae including: dogwood; cornel: perennial chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of temperate regions of northern hemisphereplay

  Familiarity information: CORNUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CORNUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A rosid dicot genus of the family Cornaceae including: dogwood; cornel: perennial chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of temperate regions of northern hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cornus; genus Cornus

Hypernyms ("Cornus" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Cornus"):

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

Holonyms ("Cornus" is a member of...):

Cornaceae; dogwood family; family Cornaceae (a rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia)


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