flowering almond

1. 1.

   deciduous Chinese shrub or small tree with often trilobed leaves grown for its pink-white flowers

   SynonymsPrunus triloba

   Broaderalmond tree
2. 2.

   woody oriental plant with smooth unfurrowed red fruit grown especially for its white or pale pink blossoms

   Synonymsoriental bush cherryPrunus japonica

   Broaderalmond tree

Questions about flowering almond

What does flowering almond mean?

flowering almond means "deciduous Chinese shrub or small tree with often trilobed leaves grown for its pink-white flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for flowering almond?

Close synonyms include Prunus triloba, oriental bush cherry, Prunus japonica. 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 flowering almond a common word?

flowering almond 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.