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FLOWERING QUINCE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Asiatic ornamental shrub with spiny branches and pink or red blossoms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("flowering quince" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flowering quince"):

Chaenomeles japonica; japonica; maule's quince (deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms)

Chaenomeles speciosa; Japanese quince (deciduous thorny shrub native to China having red or white blossoms)

Holonyms ("flowering quince" is a member of...):

Chaenomeles; genus Chaenomeles (flowering quince)

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