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SILKY DOGWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silky dogwood mean? 

SILKY DOGWOOD (noun)
  The noun SILKY DOGWOOD has 2 senses:

1. shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruitplay

2. shrub of eastern North America closely resembling silky cornelplay

  Familiarity information: SILKY DOGWOOD used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SILKY DOGWOOD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cornus amomum; silky cornel; silky dogwood

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

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


Sense 2

Meaning:

Shrub of eastern North America closely resembling silky cornel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cornus obliqua; silky dogwood

Hypernyms ("silky 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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