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Cornel n.

(Bot.) The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.

Any species of the genus Cornus, as Cornus florida, the flowering cornel; Cornus stolonifera, the osier cornel; Cornus Canadensis, the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cornel" Quotes from Famous Books

... swine she penned them. So they had the head and voice, the bristles and the shape of swine, but their mind abode even as of old. Thus were they penned there weeping, and Circe flung them acorns and mast and fruit of the cornel tree to eat, whereon wallowing swine ...

— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.

... said, "long since I met you. No odds if I mouth Welsh? There's a language, dear me. This will not interest you in the least. Put your ambarelo in the cornel, Messes Enos-Harries, and your backhead in a chair. Making ...

— My Neighbors - Stories of the Welsh People • Caradoc Evans

... burial: I say, besides these, and the slaughter of Gomes Mauriques, Diego Peres, Alphonso Gomes, and the great commander of Castile; he made away the two infants of Arragon his cousin germans, his brother Don Frederick, Don John de la Cerde, Albuquergues, Nugnes de Guzman, Cornel, Cabrera, Tenorio, Mendes de Toledo, Guttiere his great treasurer and all his kindred; and a world of others. Neither did he spare his two youngest brothers, innocent princes: whom after he had kept in close prison from their cradles, till one of them had lived sixteen ...

— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot

Words linked to "Cornel" : eastern flowering dogwood, red dogwood, Cornus mas, silky cornel, genus Cornus, cornelian cherry, silky dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, Cornus amomum, dwarf cornel, red osier, pedwood, redbrush, bunchberry, Cornus, blood-twig, American dogwood, Cornus florida, Cornus stolonifera, angiospermous tree, dogwood tree, crackerberry, common European dogwood, flowering tree, common white dogwood, red osier dogwood, Cornus obliqua, Cornus canadensis, dogwood