Definition of Cornus florida

1. Noun. Deciduous tree; celebrated for its large white or pink bracts and stunning autumn color that is followed by red berries.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornus Florida

Cornish fairing
Cornish fairings
Cornish heath
Cornish pastie
Cornish pasties
Cornish pasty
Cornish wrestling
Cornishman
Cornishmen
Cornishness
Cornishwoman
Cornishwomen
Cornus
Cornus amomum
Cornus canadensis
Cornus florida
Cornus mas
Cornus obliqua
Cornus sanguinea
Cornus stolonifera
Cornwall
Cornwallis
Corokia
Coromandel gooseberry
Corona Australis
Corona Austrina
Corona Borealis
Corona Corona
Coronado
Coronaviridae

Literary usage of Cornus florida

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

1. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1818)
"cornus florida. Dogwood. PLATE XXVIII. J_ HE family of Cornels, if surveyed by other eyes than those of botanists, is remarkable for the difference of ..."

2. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"cornus florida Linn. Nomenclature. (Sudworth.) Dogwood, Flowering Uog- False Box-dogwood (Ky.). wood (local and common New ..."

3. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"There are two or three dainty little flowers that come very early in spring, before the leaves appear. I dwell on them FLOWERING DOGWOOD. (cornus florida. ..."

4. Literary Emporium (1846)
"... away —every earth-bound joy will fade—the spell will be broken, and man will be mingled with his kindred dust. Original. cornus florida —DOGWOOD TREE. ..."

5. A Guide to therapeutics and materia medica by Robert Farquharson, Frank Woodbury (1882)
"Gm.); it is rarely used except in combination.] [cornus florida—DOGWOOD. The bark of cornus florida, US OFFICINAL PREPARATIONS. ..."

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