English noun: dogwood |
1. | dogwood (plant) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers |
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| Synonyms | cornel, dogwood tree |
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| Broader (hypernym) | angiospermous tree, flowering tree |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | American dogwood, blood-twig, bunchberry, common European dogwood, common white dogwood, cornelian cherry, Cornus amomum, Cornus canadensis, Cornus florida, Cornus mas, Cornus obliqua, Cornus sanguinea, Cornus stolonifera, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, eastern flowering dogwood, pedwood, pudding berry, red dogwood, red dogwood, red osier, red osier dogwood, redbrush, silky cornel, silky dogwood, silky dogwood |
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| Member meronym | Cornus, genus Cornus |
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| Substance holonym | dogwood |
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2. | dogwood (plant) hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood |
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| Broader (hypernym) | wood |
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| Substance meronym | cornel, dogwood, dogwood tree |
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