flowering dogwood


noun
  1. a North American dogwood tree, Cornus florida, having small greenish flowers in the spring, surrounded by white or pink bracts that resemble petals: the state flower and the state tree of Virginia.

Origin of flowering dogwood

1
First recorded in 1835–45

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How to use flowering dogwood in a sentence

  • THE flowering dogwood is rare in the northern third of the State.

    Forest Trees of Illinois | Fuller George D.
  • A flowering dogwood bathed in its ethereal light shimmers like a bridal veil adorning a wood nymph.

    Byways Around San Francisco Bay | William E. Hutchinson
  • By the roadside, on a little knoll set round with flowering dogwood, sat General Lee on grey Traveller.

    The Long Roll | Mary Johnston
  • I rode in the cars through miles on miles of flowering dogwood and pink azalea.

    A Florida Sketch-Book | Bradford Torrey
  • It wants some of the good points possessed by the flowering dogwood.

    American Forest Trees | Henry H. Gibson