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Webster 1913 Edition

Cornel

Cor′nel

(-n?l)
,
Noun.
[OF.
cornille
,
cornoille
, F.
cornouille
, cornel berry, LL.
cornolium
cornel tree, fr. L.
cornus
, fr.
cornu
horn, in allusion to the hardness of the wood. See
Horn
.]
1.
(Bot.)
The cornelian cherry (
Cornus Mas
), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.
2.
Any species of the genus
Cornus
, as
Cornus florida
, the flowering cornel;
Cornus stolonifera
, the osier cornel;
Cornus Canadensis
, the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cornel

CORNEL

, CORNEL-TREE, CORNELIAN-TREE,
Noun.
[L., a horn, or its root, from the hardness of the wood.] The cornelian cherry or dog-wood, a genus of plants of several species. The mascula, or cornelian cherry tree, has a stem of twenty feet high, branching and forming a large head, garnished with oblong leaves and small umbels of yellowish-green flowers, succeeded by small, red, acid, eatable, cherry-like fruit. [See Carnelian.]

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