redbud

/red-buhd/US // ˈrɛdˌbʌd //UK // (ˈrɛdˌbʌd) //

紫荆花,紫荆,紫荆树,水仙花

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : an American tree, Cercis canadensis, of the legume family, resembling the Eurasian Judas tree and having small, budlike, pink flowers: the state tree of Oklahoma.
- : any of various related trees.

One day I finished watering and the can was empty, so I hung it on a stub where a thin branch had been cut off on a redbud tree.
The redbud is one of the most beautiful and useful trees in the garden and deserves more use.
It was April, and redbud blushed through the forest, promising another spring.
For most men dogwood is synonymous of spring in Virginia, but to him redbud bloomed first, and the more persuasively of spring.
The twilight had closed into night now; the rain had shifted with the wind and passed by Redbud.
The redbud is cultivated as an ornamental tree and for that purpose might be planted more generally in this State.
The purplish pink of the redbud trees was thick in clumps on the hillsides.