dogwoodnoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈdɒɡ.wʊd/us/ˈdɑːɡ.wʊd/a bush or small tree that has flowers, growing either wild or in gardens
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Bushes & shrubs
- bramble
- briar
- brier
- broom
- brush
- bush
- camellia
- heather
- hibiscus
- huckleberry
- hydrangea
- juniper
- raspberry
- redcurrant
- rhododendron
- rosemary
- shrub
- shrubbery
- underbrush
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Flowers & flowering plants
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- Dismounting, he moved with caution through a mass of dogwood and laurel to the bank.
- Frosts have not yet bronzed the dogwood in the hedges, and the hazel leaves are fairly firm.
- I rode in the cars through miles on miles of flowering dogwood and pink azalea.
- The dogwoods were quite dormant.
- The drawing-room or wherever the ceremony is to be performed is often decorated with pots of pale pink roses, or daisies, or branches of dogwood or white lilacs.