dwarf cornel


noun
  1. the bunchberry.

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How to use dwarf cornel in a sentence

  • In another locality I might have brought him dwarf cornel, or the houstonia, or wood-sorrel, or the evening-primrose.

    Under the Maples | John Burroughs
  • The common yellow lily and dwarf cornel grow abundantly in the crevices of the rocks.

    Excursions and Poems | Henry David Thoreau

British Dictionary definitions for dwarf cornel

dwarf cornel

noun
  1. an arctic and subarctic cornaceous plant Cornus suecica, having small purple flowers surrounded by white petal-like bracts

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