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Tree with instruction not to sin, presumably including women
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dogwood
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Dogwood is a common name for trees and shrubs in the temperate Northern Hemisphere genus Cornus . Dogwood may also refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dogwood \Dog"wood`\ (-w[oo^]d`), n. [So named from skewers (dags) being made of it. --Dr. Prior. See Dag , and Dagger .] (Bot.) The Cornus , a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various small trees of the genus ''Cornus'', especially the (vern wild cornel pedia=1) and the (vern flowering cornel pedia=1) 2 The wood of such trees and shrubs. 3 A wood or tree similar to this genus, used in different parts of the world.
Usage examples of dogwood.
And now that it was bright on their ground-screens they began talking of how the irradiated plants and flowers had had a freakish beauty, and one of the other womeneither Rinka or Hollywas describing what it had done to the columbines and bloodroot and wild asters, the walnut trees and the dogwoods.
He took cover in a stand of dogwood and gave a sharp call, like a bobwhite quail.
He helped Elinor dismount, then dismounted himself and led the way up a lovely wooded path where dogwoods waved their creamy, cuplike blossoms overhead.
I pushed through fetterbush and fern and skirted a tangle of dogwoods, trying to pin down the source.
Apple trees hanging heavy with fruit but yet unaccountably blossoming, ice rimming the spring, okra plants blooming yellow and maroon, maple leaves red as October, corn tops tas-seling, a stuffed chair pulled up to the glowing parlor hearth, pumpkins shining in the fields, laurels blooming on the hillsides, ditch banks full of orange jewelweed, white blossoms on dogwood, purple on redbud.
Ned and I had been there once, to that bit of fen I mean, and walked in deep among the dogwood and the meadowsweet, I remembered it now, exactly where the -house was.
There was a flurry of sound and a small group of ostrichlike dinosaurs exploded into view for a moment before disappearing again among the dogwoods.
The cemetery has been in this part of the village since 1790 and is ringed with hedges of sweet pepperbush and dogwoods that bloom pink and white in the spring.
I had the twelve-gauge out of the case as the men and Hank Speltz came running around the corner of dogwood and sweetpea.
Hank Speltz took a step backwards into this dogwood, looked around wildly, and then began to edge around to the path.
In front of her, a wall of tall marsh grasses and a dense tangle of dogwoods and birches and crepe myrtle and spirea separated her from the steep bank that led down to the rising waters of Salt Marsh Creek.
I pushed through fetter-bush and fern and skirted a tangle of dogwoods, trying to pin down the source.
A quarter of a mile off the hardtop, she stopped at the back of a modern stone house framed in drifts of dogwoods, upright mountain laurels, and sprawling pink azaleas.
One wall was nothing but windows and a pair of French doors that opened onto a deck shaded by dogwoods and maples.
He dug dogwoods and redbuds out of the woods and planted most of the bushes.