Definition of Japanese cherry

1. Noun. Ornamental tree with inedible fruits widely cultivated in many varieties for its white blossoms.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Japanese Cherry

Japanese angelica tree
Japanese apricot
Japanese banana
Japanese barberry
Japanese barnyard millet
Japanese beech
Japanese beetle
Japanese bittersweet
Japanese black pine
Japanese brome
Japanese bunching onion
Japanese bunching onions
Japanese capital
Japanese cedar
Japanese cherry (current term)
Japanese chess
Japanese chestnut
Japanese crab
Japanese deer
Japanese deity
Japanese dysentery
Japanese encephalitis
Japanese flowering cherry
Japanese foods
Japanese giant salamander
Japanese honeysuckle
Japanese hop
Japanese horseradish
Japanese iris

Literary usage of Japanese cherry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Technical World Magazine (1910)
"TWO THOUSAND Japanese cherry TREES. Presented to the City of Washington by the City of Tokio. They are to be planted along the new speedway in the YARD FULL ..."

2. Forest Flora of Japan: Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan by Charles Sprague Sargent (1894)
"A more interesting tree than Prunus Mume is the Japanese cherry, ... The Japanese Cherry is common in Yezo and in all the mountain regions of Hondo up to ..."

3. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"P. PSEUDO-CERASUS (the Japanese cherry). —This is the tree whose flowering marks one of the epochs of the year in Japan. In the forests of North Japan this ..."

4. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1891)
"My Japanese cherry Blossom, 5oc. Romantic comedy Japanese dialect character ... Effective when recited and ' I love you my Japanese cherry blossom," etc., ..."

5. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"See Art, Japanese Japanese cherry trees. See Cherry trees Japanese drama Classical or epical drama of Japan. Nation 102: 55-6 Ja 13 '16 Sec aleo Opera—Japan ..."

6. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1905)
"The Japanese cherry-tree (Primus pseudo- cerasus, Lindley) is cultivated, not for its fruit, but for its blossom, which has long been to Japan what the rose ..."

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