genus cercis

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   deciduous shrubs and trees of eastern Asia, southern Europe and the United States

   SynonymsCercis

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofPapilionoideae

Questions about genus cercis

What does genus cercis mean?

genus cercis means "deciduous shrubs and trees of eastern Asia, southern Europe and the United States".

What is another word for genus cercis?

Close synonyms include Cercis. 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 genus cercis a common word?

genus cercis 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.