flowering dogwood

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noun

a North American dogwood tree, Cornus florida, having small greenish flowers in the spring, surrounded by white or pink bracts that resemble petals: the state flower and the state tree of Virginia.

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Also called boxwood.

Origin of flowering dogwood

First recorded in 1835–45

Words nearby flowering dogwood

flower fly, flower girl, flower head, flowering, flowering currant, flowering dogwood, flowering flax, flowering maple, flowering moss, flowering plant, flowering quince

How to use flowering dogwood in a sentence

THE flowering dogwood is rare in the northern third of the State.
Forest Trees of Illinois|Fuller George D.
A flowering dogwood bathed in its ethereal light shimmers like a bridal veil adorning a wood nymph.
Byways Around San Francisco Bay|William E. Hutchinson
By the roadside, on a little knoll set round with flowering dogwood, sat General Lee on grey Traveller.
The Long Roll|Mary Johnston
I rode in the cars through miles on miles of flowering dogwood and pink azalea.
A Florida Sketch-Book|Bradford Torrey

It wants some of the good points possessed by the flowering dogwood.
American Forest Trees|Henry H. Gibson