FLOWERING SHRUB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flowering shrub mean? 

• FLOWERING SHRUB (noun)
  The noun FLOWERING SHRUB has 1 sense:

1. shrub noted primarily for its flowers

  Familiarity information: FLOWERING SHRUB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOWERING SHRUB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrub noted primarily for its flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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))

 Context examples 

The round, black berries of the flowering shrub Vitex agnus-castus, native to Mediterranean countries and Asia.

(Chaste Berry, NCI Thesaurus)