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flowering cherry

n. any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Prunus cultivated for their showy white or pink single or double blossoms

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Flowering Cherry

The Flowering Cherry is a 1958 play written by Robert Bolt.

The play was performed on Broadway in 1959.

Usage examples of "flowering cherry".

Through them to his left, he could see past the veranda to a garden of flowering cherry trees, mossy boulders, and a pond.

The branches of the potted flowering cherry trees along the street, pink with blossoms in spring or lushly green in summer, were bare.

The flowering cherry trees were in bloom, pink blossoms littering the sidewalk out in front.

The sunlight, the grasses, the soft, moving air and halfway up the bank, where it curved round the corner, a flowering cherry tree!

By now the flowering cherry trees would be in bloom by the lake, dropping their petals to the crystal waters, the sweet scent filling the air.

In one corner laurel and elderflower grew alongside holly and elm, while elsewhere flowering cherry trees bloomed pink and white against the grey stone walls.

There were flowering cherry-trees near and apple-trees whose buds were pink and white, and here and there one had burst open wide.

Shrubs give us a variety of flowers all year: winter-flowering cherry, heather, forsythia - that magical shrub that brightens up the most boring patches in the garden on cold wintry days.

Kenneth Hollard inhaled deeply, taking in the scent of the flowering cherry trees and the fresh green of the grass underfoot.

She turned and straddled the bench she sat upon, and through the cloudy window watched the knobby flowering cherry tree, the one surviving beauty of the garden, as it dropped its petals on the breeze.

The ashes of my Indianapolis wife Jane Marie Cox are mixed with the roots of a flowering cherry tree, unmarked, in Barnstable Village, Massachu­.

The ashes of my Indianapolis wife Jane Marie Cox are mixed with the roots of a flowering cherry tree, unmarked, in Barnstable Village, Massachusetts.

Blossoming dogwood dotted the background of green with white and rosy stars, flowering cherry and peach trees waved fluffy white branches, lilacs curtsied under the masses of bloom.

Emptying the grass-box on the pile behind the flowering cherry tree.