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dogwood

  • noun
  • /ˈdɒɡwʊd/

Any of various small trees of the genus Cornus, especially the wild cornel and the flowering cornel.

Other meanings

  1. The wood of such trees and shrubs.

  2. A wood or tree similar to this genus, used in different parts of the world.

A kind of

  • flowering tree

Kinds of dogwood

  • common white dogwood
  • red dogwood
  • silky dogwood
  • pudding berry

Related words

  • common dogwood
  • poison dogwood
  • Korean dogwood
  • dogwood winter
  • flowering dogwood
  • gray dogwood
  • red osier dogwood
  • redtwig dogwood
  • Chinese dogwood
  • Florida dogwood
  • pagoda dogwood
  • Asian dogwood

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “dogwood” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.