dogwood

English

Etymology

dag +‎ wood, from dag (“a sharp object”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɒɡwʊd/

Noun

dogwood (countable and uncountable, plural dogwoods)

1. Any of various small trees of the genus Cornus, especially the wild cornel and the flowering cornel
2. The wood of such trees and shrubs.
3. A wood or tree similar to this genus, used in different parts of the world.

Translations

tree or shrub of the genus Cornus

• Bulgarian: кучешки дрян m (kučeški drjan)
• Catalan: sanguinyol m
• Cherokee: ᎦᎾᏏᏔ (ganasita), ᎧᏅᏏᏔ (kanvsita)
• Cheyenne: ma'kóomeeheso
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山茱萸 (zh) (shānzhūyú)

• Danish: kornel c
• Dutch: kornoelje (nl)
• Finnish: kanukka (fi)
• French: cornouiller (fr) m
• Friulian: sanzit, sangìt, forcule
• Galician: coneiro m, sangomiño m
• Georgian: შინდი (šindi)
• German: Hartriegel (de) m
• Italian: sanguinella f
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• Japanese: 水木 (ja) (ミズキ, mizuki)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kumyk: чум (çum)
• Macedonian: дрен m (dren)
• Northern Sami: kornell c
• Polish: dereń (pl) m
• Portuguese: corniso m
• Romanian: sânger (ro) m, corn (ro) m
• Russian: кизи́л (ru) m (kizíl)
• Serbo-Croatian: дрен m, dren (sh) m
• Slovene: dren (sl) m
• Spanish: cornejo (es) m
• Swahili: msese
• Swedish: kornell (sv) c
• Tagalog: korneho
• Ukrainian: дерен m (deren)

See also

• dogberry
• cornel