Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small genus of trees or shrubs, of the natural order Leguminosæ.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun deciduous shrubs and trees of eastern Asia, southern Europe and the United States
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Examples
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A look at Forest Pansy redbud, cercis canadensis, ‘Forest Pansy’, number two.
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Here is a pine branch right next to the young redbud, cercis canadensis, “Forest Pansy”.
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I grew up in PA hiking, backpacking, camping, and one of my favorite understory trees in the eastern forest was Eastern Redbud, cercis canadensis.
Dancing Around The Truth James F. McGrath 2008
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Only the cercis and the Virginia creeper were planted primarily for autumn looks, and the rest just have autumn as a bonus feature.
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_Catalpa bignonioides_ and especially _C. speciosa; _ celtis; cercis, both American and Japanese; flowering dogwood, profusely native; white ash; ginkgo; koelreuteria; sweet gum (liquidambar); American linden; tulip tree; magnolias much as for the North; China-berry (_Melia
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Parce Opcicce ex cercis experimentis, non parum reflectitur per vtramque Cruftam iilius in anteriora: pluribus ergo Globo - iis Denfioribus Obiecto iliuftranti oppofitis ex. multiplicata reflexione radiorum in anteriora po. teft miniis luminis traiici pro coafequenti impreflione diftincta; qua. ni oppofitis pau - cioribus modo fupra dicto;, efto in tali pauciorum difpofitio - ne, poft concurfum ad impreflionem diftin&am ex libera diuaricatione radiorum aliqui difpergerenturhinc-inde, qui non detienirent ad confequens, a quo excipiendi funt qui perucniunc ad terminum confuftonis, vt prxparentur aS aliam diftin&am.
Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656
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