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n. - A tree or shrub of a certain genus often having showy bracts resembling flowers.

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  • The low-cornel is opening; its cups are greenish now, but they will soon bleach to a pure white.
  • It was made of gilded cornel-wood, with lapis set in.
  • Each of his reeking hairs was as large and stiff as a spear of cornel.
  • Put your ambarelo in the cornel, Messes Enos-Harries, and your backhead in a chair.
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