Synonyms:
dogwood, dogwood_tree, cornel
Meaning: a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers
Usage examples
If he sang from the dogwood, she faced that way. If he rocked on the wild grape-vine, she turned in her nest.
If he felt that he was disturbing her too often, he perched on the dogwood and sang for life, and love, and happiness.
Crowded around it were thickets of papaw, wild grape-vines, thorn, dogwood, and red haw, that attracted bug and insect; and just across the old snake fence was a field of mellow mould sloping to the river, that soon would be plowed for corn, turning out numberless big fat grubs.