noun
creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska
• Syn: ↑bunchberry, ↑crackerberry, ↑pudding berry, ↑Cornus canadensis
• Hypernyms: ↑dogwood, ↑dogwood tree, ↑cornel
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noun : either of two red-berried perennial herbs of the genus Cornus:
a. : a creeping plant (C. canadensis) having whorled leaves and white floral bracts
b. or dwarf honeysuckle : a closely related plant (C. suecica) with opposite leaves and purple bracts
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the bunchberry.
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dwarf cornel,
a low herb of the dogwood family, having red berries; the bunchberry.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.