dwarf cornel

noun

1. the bunchberry.

dwarf cornel

noun

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

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.

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Some of its kin dwell in bogs and wet places, but this plant and the shin-leaf carpet drier woodland where dwarf cornels, partridge vines, pipsissewa, and goldthread weave their charming patterns too.

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