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ALMOND TREE

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Meaning:

Any of several small bushy trees having pink or white blossoms and usually bearing nuts

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("almond tree" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "almond tree"):

almond; Amygdalus communis; Prunus amygdalus; Prunus dulcis; sweet almond (small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California)

Amygdalus communis amara; bitter almond; Prunus dulcis amara (almond trees having white blossoms and poisonous nuts yielding an oil used for flavoring and for medicinal purposes)

dwarf flowering almond; Prunus glandulosa (small Chinese shrub with smooth unfurrowed dark red fruit grown especially for its red or pink or white flowers)

flowering almond; oriental bush cherry; Prunus japonica (woody oriental plant with smooth unfurrowed red fruit grown especially for its white or pale pink blossoms)

dwarf Russian almond; Prunus tenella; Russian almond (Asiatic shrub cultivated for its rosy red flowers)

flowering almond; Prunus triloba (deciduous Chinese shrub or small tree with often trilobed leaves grown for its pink-white flowers)

Holonyms ("almond tree" is a member of...):

genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)

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