Japanese flowering cherry

American  

noun

1. any of various ornamental hybrid cherry trees developed in Japan, having white or pink blossoms and inedible fruit.

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Example Sentences

The festival, which boasts blooms from 12 varieties of Japanese flowering cherry trees, is a $150 million tourist bonanza for the city, festival officials have estimated in the past.

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2015

On this vacant lot he had a 25-year-old Busch walnut growing back on the alley, on the lawn was a beautiful Japanese flowering cherry, and there were two pecan trees in the yard proper.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association