| 单词 | common dogwood |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon dogwood a. Originally (more fully common dogwood): the plant Cornus sanguinea (family Cornaceae), a European shrub found in woods and hedgerows having dark red branches, white flowers, and dark purple berries. In later use: any plant of the widespread genus Cornus, comprising chiefly deciduous woody shrubs and trees; esp. any of the numerous cultivated varieties commonly grown in gardens for their decorative foliage and striking red-coloured stems in winter.miner's, pacific, pagoda, silky dogwood, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > cornus (dogwood and allies) > [noun] gaiterc1000 dog-tree1548 cornel1551 dogberry1551 prick tree1551 hound's-berry1578 hound's-tree1578 prick-timber tree1578 dwarf honeysuckle1597 dogwood1598 sanguine-rod1601 prickwood1691 bloody twig1759 rose willow1798 red osier1807 swamp dogwood1817 stone-berry?1838 bunch-berry1845 cornus1846 silky cornel1848 silky dogwood1900 pagoda tree1978 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Corngniale, a wood called dog wood. 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas The Dogges tree, dogge-wood, or wilde cherrie tree, which Butchers make prickes of. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1729) i. xx. 108 The Wild-cornel or Dog-wood good to make Mill-Cogs, Pestles, [etc.]. 1671 M. Mathews Let. 30 Aug. in L. Cheves Shaftesbury Papers (2000) 333 This Land bears very good..Bay, Sassaphrage, dogwood [etc.] 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 628 There is likewise black Walnut, Cipress, Cedar, Dogwood, [etc.]. 1700 Philos. Trans. 1699 (Royal Soc.) 21 437 We have also plenty of Pine, and Dog-wood, which is a fine Flower-bearing-Tree. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. p. xii Negroes take them [sc. fish] by intoxicating them with Dogwood bark. 1719–30 tr. Tournefort's Compl. Herb. 641 The common wild female cornus, called the dogwood, or dogberry tree. 1769 W. Stork Acct. E. Florida 46 The ash, locust, and dog-wood-trees are here in abundance. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 77 Promontories of dog-wood. 1859 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion ii. i The dog-wood, robed in the white of its own pure blossoms. 1877 W. Matthews Ethnogr. Hidatsa 27 These Indians seldom use tobacco alone, but mix it with the dried inner bark of one or more species of dogwood, Cornus stolonifera and C. sericea. 1889 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 16 179 Mr. Hogg exhibited a bright pink-bracted form of the common dogwood, Cornus florida. 1908 Times 14 Mar. 6/3 The last common flowering shrubs of the year are the elder and the wayside dogwood. 1938 Amer. Home Jan. 14/2 As a mixed hedgerow, against what would soon be a mass of the greens of honeysuckle and bittersweet, we set different species of both shrubby viburnums and dogwoods. 1992 H. Mitchell One Man's Garden ix. 185 If a tree is needed, then, the two best choices are the common dogwood, Cornus florida, and the Washington thorn, Crataegus phaenopyrum. 2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees x. 228 Cornus..includes the forty-five species of dogwood, mostly shrubby. < as lemmas |
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