cornel
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Definition of cornel
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- Any tree or shrub of the dogwood subgenera, Cornus subg. Arctocrania (syn. Cornus subg. Chamaepericlymenum) or Cornus subg. Cornus, especially Cornus mas, the European cornel.
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noun
- Any tree or shrub of the dogwood subgenera, Cornus subg. Arctocrania (syn. Cornus subg. Chamaepericlymenum) or Cornus subg. Cornus, especially Cornus mas, the European cornel.
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The cherry-like fruit of such plants, certain of which are edible.
“Cornels, and ſalvage Berries of the Wood, / And Roots and Herbs have been my meagre Food.”
“Meanwhile the goddess in disdain bestows / The mast and acorn, brutal food! and strows / The fruits and cornel, as their feast, around”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English corneille, borrowed from Middle French corneille, from Vulgar Latin *cornicula, from Latin cornus (“the European cornel”).
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