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Cornel

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any tree or shrub of the dogwood subgenera, Cornus subg. Arctocrania (syn. Cornus subg. Chamaepericlymenum) or Cornus subg. Cornus, especially Cornus mas, the European cornel.
  2. 2
    a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers wordnet
  3. 3
    The cherry-like fruit of such plants, certain of which are edible.

    "Cornels, and ſalvage Berries of the Wood, / And Roots and Herbs have been my meagre Food."

Etymology

From Middle English corneille, borrowed from Middle French corneille, from Vulgar Latin *cornicula, from Latin cornus (“the European cornel”).

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