japanese cherry

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   ornamental tree with inedible fruits widely cultivated in many varieties for its white blossoms

   Synonymsoriental cherryJapanese flowering cherryPrunus serrulata

   Broaderflowering cherry

Questions about japanese cherry

What does japanese cherry mean?

japanese cherry means "ornamental tree with inedible fruits widely cultivated in many varieties for its white blossoms".

What is another word for japanese cherry?

Close synonyms include oriental cherry, Japanese flowering cherry, Prunus serrulata. 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 japanese cherry a common word?

japanese cherry 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.