dwarf cornel

American  

noun

1. the bunchberry.

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dwarf cornel British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

In the balsam-perfumed shade of our northern forests we may sometimes find growing in abundance the tiny white dwarf cornel, or bunch-berry, as its later cluster of scarlet fruit makes the more appropriate name.

From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by Beebe, William

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

From Under the Maples by Burroughs, John