flowering tree

collocation in English

meaningsofflowerandtree

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flower
noun[C]
uk
/flaʊər/
us
/ˈflaʊ.ɚ/
the part of a plant that is often brightly coloured and has a pleasant smell, or the type of plant that ...
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tree
noun[C]
uk
/triː/
us
/triː/
a tall plant that has a wooden trunk and branches that grow from its ...
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(Definition offlowerandtreefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The onlyfloweringtreein unflooded forest produced c. 8000 flowers and 980 mature fruits, values that were closer to trees in freshwater-flooded forest.
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For the following synchrony andfloweringtreespatial distribution analyses we use only this stage.
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For calculations of mean, median and its deviations and quartiles, respectively, we used the distances of eachfloweringtreein relation to synchronous conspecifics at each phenological observation date.
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Number of potential pollen donors per radius of 0-250, 251-500, 501-750, 751-1000 and more than 1000 m of distance from eachfloweringtree.
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The woman is standing next to the lushfloweringtree.
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The orange tree is an evergreen,floweringtree, with an average height of 9to10m ft, although some very old specimens can reach 15m ft.
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Behind them is a tall rock flanked by branches of afloweringtree.
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This flat lemon tree is afloweringtreewith an average height of 5m.
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The easy-to-grow and attractivefloweringtreeis cultivated as an ornamental shade and hedge plant.
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This is said to be a central eye and also afloweringtree.
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However, two of the five flowering trees in the smallest height class had high flower production.
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Furthermore, there were many cases of flowering trees occurring adjacent (within 10 m) to non-flowering trees of virtually identical size.
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In radial distances >1000 m, we found an average of four synchronized flowering trees.
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Median distances between synchronized flowering trees were 600 to 1000 m depending on the time of the flowering season.
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In this height class a majority of the flowering trees had high flower production and there was a low number of non-reproductive trees.
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Fifty percent of the flowering trees overlapped in flowering with six to seven other flowering trees growing within a radius of 1000 m during most of the annual flowering period.
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