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Definition of Genus cornus
1. Noun. A rosid dicot genus of the family Cornaceae including: dogwood; cornel: perennial chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of temperate regions of northern hemisphere.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Cornaceae, Dogwood Family, Family Cornaceae
Member holonyms: Cornel, Dogwood, Dogwood Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cornus
Literary usage of Genus cornus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"}HE genus Cornus consists of deciduous trees and shrubs, all with opposite
leaves, (except those of the Cornus alternifolia,) entire and feather-nerved. ..."
2. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"Family CORNACEAE Genus CORNUS Linne [Sp. PL, 1753, p. ... Several Cretaceous
forms have been referred to the genus Cornus, although this determination is ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"A name given to some of the shrubby and arborescent species of the genus Cornus.
There are about twenty-five species indigenous to Europe, Asia, ..."
4. The Shrubs of Northeastern America by Charles Stedman Newhall (1893)
"Genus Hamamelis (Witch Hazel). Genus Aralia (Angelica Tree). genus cornus (Dogwoods
or Cornels). Genus Sambucus (Elders). Genus Viburnum (Arrow- woods, etc. ..."
5. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1907)
"The type of the genus Cornus L. is C. mas L. which has no congener in this country,
except perhaps C'. sessilis Torr. of California. ..."
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