dog-tree
[app. as bearing dog-berries, q.v.; whence called by the early herbalists dogberry-tree.]
1. The Common Dogwood or Wild Cornel.
| 1548 Turner Names of Herbes 30 Cornus..The female is plentuous in Englande and the buchers make prickes of it, some cal it Gadrise or dog tree. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage iii. xvi. 326 The barke of the Cornell or dogge-tree. |
2. Locally applied to the Spindle-tree, Euonymus europæus, the Elder, Sambucus nigra, and the Guelder-Rose, Viburnum Opulus.
| 1703 Thoresby Let. to Ray (E.D.S.), Bur-tree, an elder or dog-tree. 1878–86 Britten & Holland Plant-n., Dog-tree..(2) Euonymus europæus. Warw. Ibid. App., Dog-tree, Viburnum Opulus. Warw. |