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Definition of Cotoneaster
1. Noun. Any shrub of the genus Cotoneaster: erect or creeping shrubs having richly colored autumn foliage and many small white to pinkish flowers followed by tiny red or black fruits.
Specialized synonyms: Cotoneaster Dammeri, Cotoneaster Horizontalis
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Definition of Cotoneaster
1. Noun. Any of several erect or creeping shrubs, of the genus ''Cotoneaster'', that have pinkish flowers and red berries. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cotoneaster
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotoneaster
Literary usage of Cotoneaster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"KEY TO THE SPECIES OF cotoneaster * Low prostrate plants with small leaves, J—|
inch long, ... SMALL-LEAVED cotoneaster (208) — cotoneaster microphylla. ..."
2. An Encyclopaedia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"Not one of them was killed by the winter of 1837—8 in the Hort. Soc. Garden. § i.
Leaves deciduous. Shrubs. & 1. C. VULGA'RIS Lindl. The common cotoneaster. ..."
3. London Trees: Being an Account of the Trees that Succeed in London, with a by Angus Duncan Webster (1920)
"cotoneaster frigida IT may seem out of place to include a cotoneaster amongst a list
... But such is not the case, as in some of the Royal parks cotoneaster ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"cotoneaster Franchetii (4 to 6 feet). cotoneaster Dielsiana (4 to 6 feet). ...
cotoneaster microphylla (2 to 3 feet). cotoneaster frígida (8 to 10 feet). ..."
5. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Genus Coton caster cotoneaster (the old Roman name, signifying Quince-like).
A genus comprising about fifteen species of hardy shrubs or small trees, ..."
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