flowering dogwood
noun
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
1First recorded in 1835–45
- Also called boxwood.
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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. HutchinsonBy the roadside, on a little knoll set round with flowering dogwood, sat General Lee on grey Traveller.
The Long Roll | Mary JohnstonI rode in the cars through miles on miles of flowering dogwood and pink azalea.
A Florida Sketch-Book | Bradford TorreyIt wants some of the good points possessed by the flowering dogwood.
American Forest Trees | Henry H. Gibson
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