FLOWERING TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flowering tree mean? 

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

1. any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOWERING TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

angiospermous tree; flowering tree

Hypernyms ("flowering tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flowering tree"):

maple (any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone)

Cecropia peltata; imbauba; snake wood; trumpet-wood; trumpet tree; trumpetwood (tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems)

Bauhinia variegata; mountain ebony; orchid tree (small East Indian tree having orchid-like flowers and hard dark wood)

Delonix regia; flamboyant; flame tree; peacock flower; Poinciana regia; royal poinciana (showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana)

Circis siliquastrum; Judas tree; love tree (small tree of the eastern Mediterranean having abundant purplish-red flowers growing on old wood directly from stems and appearing before the leaves: widely cultivated in mild regions; wood valuable for veneers)

Cercis canadensis; redbud (small shrubby tree of eastern North America similar to the Judas tree having usually pink flowers; found in damp sheltered underwood)

cherry laurel; laurel cherry; mock orange; Prunus caroliniana; wild orange (small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States)

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

mountain ash (any of various trees of the genus Sorbus)

ailanthus (any of several deciduous Asian trees of the genus Ailanthus)

Bulnesia sarmienti; palo santo (South American tree of dry interior regions of Argentina and Paraguay having resinous heartwood used for incense)

Guaiacum officinale; lignum vitae (small evergreen tree of Caribbean and southern Central America to northern South America; a source of lignum vitae wood, hardest of commercial timbers, and a medicinal resin)

bastard lignum vitae; Guaiacum sanctum (small evergreen tree of the southern United States and West Indies a source of lignum vitae wood)

poplar; poplar tree (any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins)

buckwheat tree; Cliftonia monophylla; titi (tree of low-lying coastal areas of southeastern United States having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers)

Broussonetia papyrifera; paper mulberry (shrubby Asiatic tree having bark (tapa) that resembles cloth; grown as a shade tree in Europe and America; male flowers are pendulous catkins and female are urn-shaped followed by small orange-red aggregate berries)

holly (any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges)

Pistacia terebinthus; terebinth (a Mediterranean tree yielding Chian turpentine)

Aesculus hippocastanum; buckeye; horse chestnut (tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds)

caimitillo; Chrysophyllum oliviforme; damson plum; satin leaf; satinleaf (tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit)

silver bell (any of various deciduous trees of the genus Halesia having white bell-shaped flowers)

Cordia alliodora; cypre; Equador laurel; princewood; salmwood; Spanish elm (large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood)

Jatropha curcus; physic nut (small tropical American tree yielding purple dye and a tanning extract and bearing physic nuts containing a purgative oil that is poisonous in large quantities)

caoutchouc tree; Hevea brasiliensis; Para rubber tree (deciduous tree of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers having leathery leaves and fragrant yellow-white flowers; it yields a milky juice that is the chief source of commercial rubber)

Aleurites moluccana; candlenut; varnish tree (large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles)

Aleurites fordii; tung; tung-oil tree; tung tree (Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil)

cornel; dogwood; dogwood tree (a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers)

nut tree (tree bearing edible nuts)

spice tree (tree bearing aromatic bark or berries)

Heritiera littoralis; looking-glass plant (small tree of coastal regions of Old World tropics whose leaves are silvery beneath)

Cananga odorata; ilang-ilang; ylang-ylang (evergreen Asian tree with aromatic greenish-yellow flowers yielding a volatile oil; widely grown in the tropics as an ornamental)

Cercidiphyllum japonicum; katsura tree (rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan; grown as an ornamental for its dark blue-green candy-scented foliage that becomes yellow to scarlet in autumn)

laurel (any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family)

magnolia (any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms)

genus Manglietia; manglietia (a genus of flowering tree of the family Magnoliaceae found from Malay to southern China)

canary whitewood; Liriodendron tulipifera; tulip poplar; tulip tree; yellow poplar (tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit; yields soft white woods used especially for cabinet work)

bocconia; Bocconia frutescens; tree celandine (small Central American tree having loose racemes of purple-tinted green flowers)

Adansonia gregorii; cream-of-tartar tree; sour gourd (Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd)

Adansonia digitata; baobab; monkey-bread tree (African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread)

Bombay ceiba; Ceiba pentandra; ceiba tree; God tree; kapok; silk-cotton tree; white silk-cotton tree (massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber)

balsa; Ochroma lagopus (forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts)

sterculia (any tree of the genus Sterculia)

booyong; brown oak; crow's foot; Heritiera trifoliolata; red beech; silky elm; stave wood; Terrietia trifoliolata (large tree of Australasia)

Heritiera macrophylla; looking glass tree (large evergreen tree of India and Burma whose leaves are silvery beneath)

cacao; cacao tree; chocolate tree; Theobroma cacao (tropical American tree producing cacao beans)

New Zealand honeysuckle; rewa-rewa (slender elegant tree of New Zealand having racemes of red flowers and yielding valuable mottled red timber)

Oxydendrum arboreum; sorrel tree; sourwood; titi (deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves)

iron-tree; iron tree; ironwood; ironwood tree (a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape)

bush willow; Combretum appiculatum (small deciduous tree of the Transvaal having spikes of yellow flowers)

bush willow; Combretum erythrophyllum (small South African tree having creamy yellow fragrant flowers usually growing on stream banks)

Lagerstroemia speciosa; pride-of-India; Queen's crape myrtle (native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma; used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers)

myrtaceous tree (trees and shrubs)

myrtle (any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Myrtus)

mangrove; Rhizophora mangle (a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building)

dillenia (any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Dillenia grown for their foliage and nodding flowers resembling magnolias which are followed by fruit that is used in curries and jellies and preserves)

gamboge tree; Garcinia cambogia; Garcinia gummi-gutta; Garcinia hanburyi (low spreading tree of Indonesia yielding an orange to brown gum resin (gamboge) used as a pigment when powdered)

Pipturus albidus (Hawaiian tree of genus Pipturus having a bark (tapa) from which tapa cloth is made)

Holonyms ("flowering tree" 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))