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FLOWERING CHERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Prunus cultivated for their showy white or pink single or double blossoms
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("flowering cherry" is a kind of...):
cherry; cherry tree (any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flowering cherry"):
fuji; fuji cherry; Prunus incisa (shrubby Japanese cherry tree having pale pink blossoms)
Japanese cherry; Japanese flowering cherry; oriental cherry; Prunus serrulata (ornamental tree with inedible fruits widely cultivated in many varieties for its white blossoms)
Japanese flowering cherry; Prunus sieboldii (ornamental tree with inedible fruit widely cultivated in many varieties for its pink blossoms)
Prunus subhirtella; rosebud cherry; winter flowering cherry (shrub or tree native to Japan cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-pink flowers)
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