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FLOWERING QUINCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flowering quince mean?
• FLOWERING QUINCE (noun)
The noun FLOWERING QUINCE has 1 sense:
1. Asiatic ornamental shrub with spiny branches and pink or red blossoms
Familiarity information: FLOWERING QUINCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Asiatic ornamental shrub with spiny branches and pink or red blossoms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("flowering quince" 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 quince"):
Chaenomeles japonica; japonica; maule's quince (deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms)
Chaenomeles speciosa; Japanese quince (deciduous thorny shrub native to China having red or white blossoms)
Holonyms ("flowering quince" is a member of...):
Chaenomeles; genus Chaenomeles (flowering quince)
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