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    RED DOGWOOD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowersplay

    Synonyms:

    American dogwood; Cornus stolonifera; red dogwood; red osier; red osier dogwood; redbrush

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("red 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:

    European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowersplay

    Synonyms:

    blood-twig; common European dogwood; Cornus sanguinea; pedwood; red dogwood

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("red 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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