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Definition of Flowering shrub
1. Noun. Shrub noted primarily for its flowers.
Specialized synonyms: Bird Of Paradise, Caesalpinia Gilliesii, Poinciana, Poinciana Gilliesii, Caesalpinia Pulcherrima, Flamboyant Tree, Paradise Flower, Poinciana Pulcherrima, Pride Of Barbados, Alpine Golden Chain, Laburnum Alpinum, Scotch Laburnum, Common Laburnum, Golden Chain, Golden Rain, Laburnum Anagyroides, Asiatic Sweetleaf, Sapphire Berry, Symplocus Paniculata
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flowering Shrub
Literary usage of Flowering shrub
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"A very graceful early-flowering shrub, the slender arching branches clothed with
... Very handsome, early-flowering shrub, with dark green, shining foliage, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"Nothing looks so miserable in a garden as a flowering shrub that does not ...
An occasional flowering shrub may be placed with artful irregularity even in ..."
3. The American Home Garden: Being Principles and Rules for the Culture of by Alexander Watson (1859)
"A showy early-flowering shrub, its branches seeming raffled with the ... A showy
yellow flowering shrub of willowy growth, spreading so much from the roots ..."
4. The American Home Garden: Being Principles and Rules for the Culture of by Alexander Watson (1859)
"A showy early-flowering shrub, its branches seeming ruffled with the ... A showy
yellow flowering shrub of willowy growth, spreading so much from the roots ..."
5. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"A handsome, flowering shrub, in bogs, mountain or plain, Can. to Penn., frequent.
... A beautiful and fragrant flowering shrub, ..."
6. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"A handsome, flowering shrub, in bogs, mountain or plain, Can. to Penn., ...
A beautiful and fragrant flowering shrub, 4—6f high, rather frequent in the ..."
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