flowering dogwood

flowering dogwood
noun also flowering cornel
: a common spring-flowering white-bracted dogwood (Cornus florida)

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a North American dogwood tree, Cornus florida, having small greenish flowers in the spring, surrounded by white or pink bracts that resemble petals: the state flower and the state tree of Virginia. Also called boxwood.
[1835-45]

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flowering dogwood,
a small North American tree covered in the spring with large white or pink flowers. Its flower is the state flower of Virginia and North Carolina. See also dogwood. (Cf.dogwood)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • flowering dogwood — noun Date: 1843 a common spring flowering usually white bracted dogwood (Cornus florida) …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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