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Definition of Red dogwood

1. Noun. European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers.

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Dogwood

red corpuscle red corpuscles red cross red currant red cypress pine red dagga red deer red degeneration red devil red diaper baby

red diesel red dog red dogs red dogwood (current term) red drop effect red drum red drums red dwarf red dwarf star red dwarfs

red earth red eft red elm red envelope red face test red false mallow red fescue red fescues

Literary usage of Red dogwood

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

1. Supplement to Encyclopædia Britannica (ninth Edition): A Dictionary of Arts (1889)
"... and which has had many other names, now given as synonyms; it is also called red dogwood, which name confuses it with Cornus sanguinea of Europe, ..."

2. The Practice of medicine on Thomsonian principles ... and a materia medica by John W. Comfort (1859)
"red dogwood—RED WILLOW. (Cornus Ser/cea.) THIS species of cornus is usually six ... The red dogwood is found growing in low, wet lands, and along streams in ..."

3. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"BLOOD red dogwood, (Cornus sanguinea, L.) Grows, according to Elliott, in the valleys among the mountains. PL May. Diet, de Méd. de Férus, ii, 737; ..."

4. Stoddart's Encyclopaedia Americana: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by American supplement, Encyclopaedia britannica (1884)
"... though other species have smaller white berries, and which has had many other names, now given as synonyms ; it is also called red dogwood, which name ..."

5. Landscape Gardening as Applied to Home Decoration by Samuel Taylor Maynard (1915)
"This is a comparatively new variety with red twigs which while young are nearly as red as those of the red dogwood. Basswood or American Linden (Tilia ..."

6. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"it seems that this is in some way connected with the color of their food, as for example, some species found on the stems of the red dogwood are themselves ..."

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