dogwood

English

Etymology

From dag +‎ wood, from dag (“a sharp object”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒɡwʊd/

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Noun

dogwood (countable and uncountable, plural dogwoods)

1. Any of various small trees of the genus Cornus, especially the wild cornel and the flowering cornel
2. The wood of such trees and shrubs.
3. A wood or tree similar to this genus, used in different parts of the world.

Derived terms

• Chinese dogwood
• common dogwood
• dogwood winter
• Florida dogwood
• flowering dogwood
• gray dogwood
• Korean dogwood
• pagoda dogwood
• red osier dogwood
• redtwig dogwood

 

Translations

tree or shrub of the genus Cornus

• Albanian: thanukël (sq) m
• Bulgarian: кучешки дрян m (kučeški drjan)
• Catalan: sanguinyol m
• Cherokee: ᎦᎾᏏᏔ (ganasita), ᎧᏅᏏᏔ (kanvsita)
• Cheyenne: ma'kóomeeheso
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山茱萸 (zh) (shānzhūyú)

• Czech: dřín (cs) m
• Danish: kornel c
• Dutch: kornoelje (nl)
• Finnish: kanukka (fi)
• French: cornouiller (fr) m
• Friulian: sanzit, sangìt, forcule
• Galician: corneira (gl) m, sangomiño m
• Georgian: შინდი (šindi)
• German: Hartriegel (de) m
• Italian: sanguinella f
• Japanese: 水木 (ja) (ミズキ, mizuki)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kumyk: чум (çum)
• Latin: cornus f
• Macedonian: дрен m (dren)
• Northern Sami: kornell c
• Polish: dereń (pl) m
• Portuguese: corniso m
• Romanian: sânger (ro) m, corn (ro) m
• Russian: кизи́л (ru) m (kizíl), дёрен (ru) m (djóren)
• Serbo-Croatian: дрен m, dren (sh) m
• Slovene: dren (sl) m
• Spanish: cornejo (es) m
• Swahili: msese
• Swedish: kornell (sv) c
• Tagalog: korneho
• Ukrainian: дерен m (deren)

See also

• dogberry
• cornel