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cornus Bot.|ˈkɔːnəs|
[L., = dogwood, adopted by Linnæus (Systema Naturæ 1735) and earlier botanists as the name of a genus.]
A tree or shrub belonging to the large genus so called, of the family Cornaceæ; cf. cornel3 and dogwood2.
1846Lindley Veget. Kingd. 782 The Cornus of the ancients was the present Cornelian Cherry. 1920Blackw. Mag. Nov. 621/1 A Cornus of some kind, bearing great clusters of scarlet fruit. 1961Amateur Gardening 23 Dec. 2 The edible berries which so many shrubs provide, say, amelanchier, cornus, berberis. |