red-osier dogwood

noun

1. a North American shrub, Cornus stolonifera , having bright or dark red wood, white flowers, and whitish fruit

Example Sentences

For damp ground there is no better shrub than the red osier dogwood.

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Those spreading, pointed fingers of coral with a background of dazzling white are the topmost twigs of the red osier dogwood.

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Cornus stolonifera (red-osier dogwood), prevailing shrub on shore of West Branch; fruit still white in August, 1857.

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Again the speckled trunks of the balm poplars struck my eye, now interspersed with the scarlet stems of the red osier dogwood.

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