dogwood

dogwood

English

Etymology

dag +‎ wood, from dag (“a sharp object”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒɡwʊd/

Noun

dogwood (countable and uncountable, plural dogwoods)

1. Any of various small trees of the genus Cornus, especially the wild cornel and the flowering cornel
2. The wood of such trees and shrubs.
3. A wood or tree similar to this genus, used in different parts of the world.

Derived terms

• common dogwood
• dogwood winter
• flowering dogwood
• gray dogwood
• red osier dogwood
• redtwig dogwood

 

Translations

tree or shrub of the genus Cornus

Albanian: thanukël (sq) m Bulgarian: кучешки дрян m (kučeški drjan) Catalan: sanguinyol m Cherokee: ᎦᎾᏏᏔ (ganasita), ᎧᏅᏏᏔ (kanvsita) Cheyenne: ma'kóomeeheso Chinese: Mandarin: 山茱萸 (zh) Czech: dřín m Danish: kornel c Dutch: kornoelje (nl) Finnish: kanukka (fi) French: cornouiller (fr) m Friulian: sanzit, sangìt, forcule Galician: corneira (gl) m, sangomiño m Georgian: შინდი (šindi) German: Hartriegel (de) m Italian: sanguinella f Japanese: 水木 (ja) (ミズキ, mizuki) Korean: please add this translation if you can Kumyk: чум (çum) Latin: cornus f Macedonian: дрен m (dren) Northern Sami: kornell c Polish: dereń (pl) m Portuguese: corniso m Romanian: sânger (ro) m, corn (ro) m Russian: кизи́л (ru) m (kizíl), дёрен (ru) m (djóren) Serbo-Croatian: дрен m, dren (sh) m Slovene: dren (sl) m Spanish: cornejo (es) m Swahili: msese Swedish: kornell (sv) c Tagalog: korneho Ukrainian: дерен m (deren)

See also

• dogberry
• cornel