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Plural of dogwood

regular plural

The plural of dogwood is dogwoods.

Forms of dogwood

Singulardogwood /ˈdɒɡwʊd/
Pluraldogwoods
Countablecountable and uncountable

Dogwoods in a sentence

  • The dogwoods are in flower this week.From the entry flower
  • When we asked to see a peachtree, Atlantans blushingly admitted there are no peachtrees, only dogwoods.1972, Michigan Living - Motor News, page 6. From the entry peachtree
  • Daily sprinkling or turning the hose on root areas can be most injurious — especially to some miffy plants like rhododendrons and dogwoods.1967, Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin, volume 55, page 42. From the entry miffy
  • To the right, on the crest of the first hill, stood the white-belfried brick church, surrounded by its calm graveyard, shadowy with the dogwoods that separated the family plots.1983, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Vigil, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, Part 3, p. 101. From the entry belfried

Meaning of dogwood

  1. noun Any of various small trees of the genus Cornus, especially the wild cornel and the flowering cornel.
  2. noun The wood of such trees and shrubs.
  3. noun A wood or tree similar to this genus, used in different parts of the world.

Full definition of dogwood

Questions about the plural of dogwood

What is the plural of dogwood?
The plural of dogwood is dogwoods.
Is dogwood countable?
Dogwood is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogwood (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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