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FLOWERING SHRUB
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrub noted primarily for its flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("flowering shrub" 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 shrub"):
bird of paradise; Caesalpinia gilliesii; poinciana; Poinciana gilliesii (a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana)
Caesalpinia pulcherrima; flamboyant tree; paradise flower; Poinciana pulcherrima; pride of barbados (tropical shrub or small tree having showy yellow to orange-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana)
Alpine golden chain; Laburnum alpinum; Scotch laburnum (an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum)
common laburnum; golden chain; golden rain; Laburnum anagyroides (an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum; often cultivated for Easter decorations)
Asiatic sweetleaf; sapphire berry; Symplocus paniculata (deciduous shrub of eastern Asia bearing decorative bright blue fruit)
Holonyms ("flowering shrub" is a member of...):
Angiospermae; Anthophyta; class Angiospermae; division Anthophyta; division Magnoliophyta; Magnoliophyta (comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and in others a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta))
