Definitions for redbuds

redbuds red·bud

Spelling: [red-buhd]
IPA: /ˈrɛdˌbʌd/

Redbuds is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in redbuds (bddersu).

Definitions for redbuds

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.
  2. any of various related trees.

Origin of redbuds

First recorded in 1695-1705; red1 + bud1

Examples for redbuds

They were the dogwood and the redbud, and each was in full bloom.

No one ever thinks of redbud as a timber tree or considers its wood, yet it might be used for a number of purposes.

The disparity in numbers was great for hackberry, redbud, elm and dogwood which made up the bulk of the saplings.

He reached redbud by and by, to find no Steering, only the little empty shack.

May 4th the gelder-rose, dogwood, redbud, azalea were in blossom.

It was the merciless loneliness of the effort there at redbud that had been most effective in dulling Steering's endurance.

The purplish pink of the redbud trees was thick in clumps on the hillsides.

In general dogwood grows in the drier, more rocky situations and redbud in better soil and damper sites.

Texas redbud (Cercis reniformis) differs somewhat from the common redbud, but it takes a botanist to point out the differences.

No longer are the redbud and the dogwood and the sassafras conspicuous as its heralds.

Word Value for redbuds
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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