cercis canadensis

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsredbud

   Broaderangiospermous tree

Questions about cercis canadensis

What does cercis canadensis mean?

cercis canadensis means "small shrubby tree of eastern North America similar to the Judas tree having usually pink flowers; found in damp sheltered underwood".

What is another word for cercis canadensis?

Close synonyms include redbud. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cercis canadensis a common word?

cercis canadensis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.