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. Note: There are several species, one of which, Cornus mascula, called also cornelian cherry, bears a red acid berry. Cornus florida is the flowering dogwood, a small American tree with very showy blossoms. Dogwood tree.
The dogwood or Cornus.
A papilionaceous tree ( Piscidia erythrina) growing in Jamaica. It has narcotic properties; -- called also Jamaica dogwood.
WordNet
Usage examples of "dogwood tree".
They had thought it was her shed next to the little dogwood tree, which she called Dogwood Bumshed, so they had taken that away.
She called it Dogwood Bumshed, because a small dogwood tree grew beside it.
I'll be acting like a witch if this goes on, she thought morosely, as she squinted to see between the boughs of the dogwood tree.
And as time went by he made a few acquaintances, discovered a dogwood tree in the concrete yard, and began to enjoy the steady rhythm of bed, meals, social hour, nap.
She would often end up in our front yard, standing under the dogwood tree and looking out at the street as if waiting for a bus.
She was in a prone position, with her legs spread awkwardly, partially hidden under a spreading dogwood tree.
Stephen pushed open the front door and looked out at the large glass windows in front, partially obscured by a flowering dogwood tree.
The townsfolk came in the middle of the night and took her, decapitated her, stuffed a cross cut from stale bread into her dead mouth, and charred her on fire fed by the boughs of a dogwood tree.
He became a dogwood tree, and sniffed with his sensitive canine noses.