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FLOWERING CHERRY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Prunus cultivated for their showy white or pink single or double blossoms

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Nouns denoting plants

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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