cornel
nl noun
any tree or shrub of the genus Cornus; dogwood.
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| —n | |
| any cornaceous plant of the genus Cornus, such as the dogwood and dwarf cornel | |
| [C16: probably from Middle Low German kornelle, from Old French cornelle, from Vulgar Latin cornicula (unattested), from Latin cornum cornel cherry, from cornus cornel tree] | |
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Cornel
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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cornel
a type of tree or shrub with an edible fruit, 1550s, from Ger. cornel-baum, from O.H.G. cornul, from M.L. cornolium, from Fr. cornouille, from V.L. *cornuculum, from L. cornum "cornel-cherry." O.E. also had borrowed the L. word, in corntreow. The plant was noted for its hard wood, favored by the ancients
for making shafts of spears and arrows.
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