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Definition of Japanese flowering cherry

1. Noun. Ornamental tree with inedible fruit widely cultivated in many varieties for its pink blossoms.

2. Noun. Ornamental tree with inedible fruits widely cultivated in many varieties for its white blossoms.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Japanese Flowering Cherry

Japanese black pine Japanese brome Japanese bunching onion Japanese bunching onions Japanese capital Japanese cedar Japanese cherry Japanese chess Japanese chestnut Japanese crab

Japanese deer Japanese deity Japanese dysentery Japanese encephalitis Japanese flowering cherry (current term) Japanese foods Japanese giant salamander Japanese honeysuckle Japanese hop Japanese horseradish

Japanese iris Japanese ivy Japanese knotweed Japanese lacquer tree Japanese lantern Japanese lanterns Japanese leaf Japanese leek

Literary usage of Japanese flowering cherry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, N.C. (1907)
"Japanese flowering cherry. The famous Flowering Cherry of Japan, so beautifully portrayed in many Japanese scenes. The flowers are very large, pink or blush ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Wilhelm Miller, Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"Japanese flowering cherry. Fips. 1997, 1998. Strong-growing tree, like a Sweet Cherry: Ivs. ovate to oblong-ovate, long-acuminate, glabrous or nearly so, ..."

3. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"Japanese flowering cherry. A strong tree with much the aspect of a Sweet Cherry ; cult, from China and Japan for its very large and pretty rose-colored ..."

4. Handbook of the Wild and Cultivated Flowering Plants by Chester Arthur Darling (1912)
"12 11 a Tree planted for its flowers; flowers usually double JAPANESE FLOWERING CHERRY. (P. pseudo-cerasus.*) b Trees planted for their fruit 13 12 a Leaves ..."

5. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"Japanese flowering cherry. A strong tree with much the aspect of a Sweet Cherry ; cult, from China and Japan for its very large and pretty rose-colored ..."

6. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"The interest in the Japanese flowering cherry trees, which have been found to succeed well in the United States, makes it worth while to call attention to ..."

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