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The brushwoods, with participation of different species Cerasus, Rhamnus, Spiraea, and Cotoneaster are varied.
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Spiny (Paliurus spina-christi) is a major understory shrub, as are Jasminum fruticans, Berberis iberica, Rhamnus pallasii, Cerasus spp., etc.
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Continuing their march that day and the next, on the third they reached Cerasus, a Hellenic city on the sea, and a colony of Sinope, in the country of the Colchians.
Anabasis 2007
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From Cerasus they continued the march, the same portion of the troops being conveyed by sea as before, and the rest marching by land.
Anabasis 2007
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But now, what do you think of their case, these men of Cerasus?
Anabasis 2007
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The men collected out of their strongholds, and whether from a distance or close quarters, made such a fight that they killed Clearetus and a good many of the rest, and only a few of them got safe back to Cerasus.
Anabasis 2007
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After this occurrence, the men of Cerasus came to us and reported the affair, and we generals, on being informed, were annoyed at what had taken place, and took counsel with the Cerasuntines how the dead bodies of the Hellenes might be buried.
Anabasis 2007
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While those who stoned the ambassadors have contrived so cleverly that we alone of all Hellenes cannot approach Cerasus safely without a strong force, and the corpses which the very men who slew them themselves invited us to bury, we cannot now pick up with safety even under a flag of truce.
Anabasis 2007
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Cerasus and Trapezus, pay us an appointed tribute.
Anabasis 2007
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Near the end of May, the sand cherry (Cerasus pumila) adorned the sides of the path with its delicate flowers arranged in umbels cylindrically about its short stems, which last, in the fall, weighed down with goodsized and handsome cherries, fell over in wreaths like rays on every side.
Walden 2004
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