Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CORN'EL, n. [or CORN'EL-TREE, or COR-NEL'IAN-TREE.]

L. cornus, from cornu, a horn, or its root, from the hardness of the wood; Sp. corno; It. corniolo; Fr. cornouiller.] The cornelian cherry or dog-wood, the popular name of a species of Cornus. The Cornus mascula, or cornelian cherry-tree, has a stem of twenty feet high, branching and forming a large head, garnished with oblong leaves and small umbels of yellowish-green flowers, succeeded by small, red, acid, eatable, cherry-like fruit. – Encyc.