Definition of American dogwood

1. Noun. Common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of American Dogwood

American cockroach
American cockroaches
American columbo
American coot
American copper
American crab apple
American cranberry
American cranberry bush
American crayfish
American creeper
American cress
American crow
American dewberry
American dog tick
American dog violet
American dogwood (current term)
American dun-bar
American dun-bars
American dwarf birch
American eagle
American eagles
American egret
American elder
American elk
American elm
American featherfoil
American feverfew
American flag
American flagfish
American fly honeysuckle

Literary usage of American dogwood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gardeners Kalendar: Directing what Works are Necessary to be Performed by Philip Miller (1769)
"... three or four forts of Virgins Bovver, Spindle- tree, American dogwood, ... American dogwood, Tartarian Dogwood, Scarlet-flowering ..."

2. The American Handbook of Ornamental Trees by Thomas Meehan (1853)
"American dogwood. Native of the Northern and Middle States. One of the most beautiful of our native flowering small trees, the flowers appearing in April, ..."

3. With Poor Immigrants to America by Stephen Graham (1914)
"In the gardens the ficacia was shooting her yellow arrows, in the woods the American dogwood tree was covered with white blossoms like thousands of little ..."

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