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dog tree

noun

Definition of dog tree 

: any of several Old World trees and shrubs: such as

a : red dogwood sense 1

b : a spindle tree (Euonymus europaeus)

c : an elder (Sambucus nigra)

d : guelder rose

e : a common alder (Alnus glutinosa)

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1548, in the meaning defined above

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