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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.]

Definition 2025

cornel

cornel

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Noun

cornel ‎(plural cornels)

European cornel fruits
  1. 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.
  2. The cherry-like fruit of such plants, certain of which are edible.

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Etymology

From Middle English corneille, a borrowing from Middle French corneille, from Vulgar Latin *cornicula, from Latin cornus ‎(“the European cornel”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: cor‧nel

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