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Meanings of red dogwood in English

Common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers.

        European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers.

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              Examples for "red osier"
              Examples for "red osier"
              1
              The immediate shores were also densely covered with the speckled alder, red osier, shrubby willows or sallows, and the like.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 / A Magazine ...
              2
              Before I had done with it my ribs showed through my skin and my back was like a red osier basket.
              The Lady of Blossholme
              3
              Again the speckled trunks of the balm poplars struck my eye, now interspersed with the scarlet stems of the red osier dogwood.
              Over Prairie Trails
              4
              From my own pasture fence-line will come red osier, dogwood, with its white blooms, its blue berries, its winter stem-coloring, and elderberry.
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              5
              C. STOLONIFERA.-RedOsier Dogwood.
              Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs
              1
              Again the speckled trunks of the balm poplars struck my eye, now interspersed with the scarlet stems of the red osier dogwood.
              Over Prairie Trails
              2
              C. STOLONIFERA.- RedOsier Dogwood.
              Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs
              Usage of red dogwood in English
              1
              He was lying under a group of giant walnut-trees, whose boles were sheltered from the road by a natural hedge of red dogwood and brambles.
              The Mormon Prophet