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Cercis

noun

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

• Syn: ↑genus Cercis

• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Papilionoideae, ↑subfamily Papilionoideae

• Member Meronyms: ↑Judas tree, ↑love tree, ↑Circis siliquastrum

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\\ˈsərsə̇s\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek kerkis Judas tree, weaver's shuttle, perhaps from kerkos tail; from the movement of its leaves

: a small genus of widely distributed shrubs or low trees (family Leguminosae) having irregular pink to reddish flowers borne on the old wood — see judas tree, redbud

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/serr"sis/, n.

any shrub or small tree of the genus Cercis, as the redbud or Judas tree.

[ < NL (Linnaeus) < Gk kerkís redbud, lit., weaver's shuttle (perh. after the shape of the fruit), deriv. of kérkos tail]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.