Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Cercis of the pea family, having pinkish flowers that bloom before the leaves appear.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any tree of the American species of Cercis; the Judas-tree.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under
Judas .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several small
trees , of the genus Cercis, having purple-pink flowers that appear before the leaves; theJudas tree .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small shrubby tree of eastern North America similar to the Judas tree having usually pink flowers; found in damp sheltered underwood
Etymologies
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Examples
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The adult female removes circular portions from the soft leaves of plants such as redbud, katsura, itea and roses, then uses these discs to line the holes of nests where individual eggs are laid.
unknown title 2009
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Others, such as redbud, juniper and hophornbeam, need the cool, moist treatment after their seedcoats are made permeable.
Gazette.com : LEE REICH 2009
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Others, such as redbud, juniper and hophornbeam, need the cool, moist treatment after their seedcoats are made permeable.
unknown title 2009
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In Nashville, the sun has shown up at last with daffodils, redbud, forsythia, and Japanese magnolia in full celebration.
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Much like a redbud tree, from a distance it looks pretty good, but when you get a closer look there's not much there, same with Obama, all fluff and window dressing, no substance.
As a sportsman, how would you "grade" Obama's first 100 days in office. 2009
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Much like a redbud tree, from a distance it looks pretty good, but when you get a closer look there's not much there, same with Obama, all fluff and window dressing, no substance.
As a sportsman, how would you "grade" Obama's first 100 days in office. 2009
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On my deck, reading Proust, listening for that soft wind in the pergola, looking the sparrow into redbud leaves
With six months to live Sam Rasnake 2011
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One of my first targets was a redbud tree (Cercis canadensis) that had grown to about 12 feet high and six feet across, crowding out the ninebark bush on its right side and witch hazel tree on the left.
Fear of Pruning Bart Ziegler 2010
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To make things less cluttered I used my pruner to cut off some lower branches of the redbud, nipping them nearly all the way to the tree's trunk.
Fear of Pruning Bart Ziegler 2010
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‘Forest Pansy’ makes my plain old redbud pale by comparison.
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