Cornus, genus Cornus - a rosid dicot genus of the family Cornaceae including: dogwood; cornel: perennial chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of temperate regions of northern hemisphere

dogwood - hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resemble boxwood

common white dogwood, Cornus florida, eastern flowering dogwood - deciduous tree; celebrated for its large white or pink bracts and stunning autumn color that is followed by red berries

American dogwood, Cornus stolonifera, red osier, red osier dogwood, redbrush, red dogwood - common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers

Cornus obliqua, silky dogwood - shrub of eastern North America closely resembling silky cornel

Cornus amomum, silky cornel, silky dogwood - shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit

blood-twig, common European dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, pedwood, red dogwood - European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers

bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry - creeping red-berried perennial herb distinguished by clustered leaf whorls at tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska

cornelian cherry, Cornus mas - deciduous European shrub or small tree having bright red fruit

angiospermous tree, flowering tree - any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary