Côr'nel, n.

n. [It. corniolo, diminutive of cornio, O. Fr. cornille, cornoille, now cornouille, L. Lat. cornoilium, from Lat. cornus, a cornel cherry-tree, from cornu, horn, or its root, from the hardness of the wood.] (Bot.) A shrub and its fruit; dogwood, a species of Cornus (Cornus mascula); — called also cornel-cherry, cornelian cherry, and cornelian tree.

☞ It has a stem twenty feet high, branching and forming a large head, oblong leaves, and small umbels of yellowish-green flowers, succeeded by small, red, acid, eatable, cherry-like fruit.