flowering cherry vs cherry

cherry vs flowering cherry

flowering cherry and cherry both are nouns.

flowering cherry is not an adjective while cherry is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
flowering cherry	Yes	No	No	No
cherry	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, cherry is a hypernym of flowering cherry; that is, cherry is a word with a broader meaning than flowering cherry:

flowering cherry: any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Prunus cultivated for their showy white or pink single or double blossoms
cherry: any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood

Other hypernyms of flowering cherry include cherry tree.

flowering cherry (noun)	cherry (noun)
any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Prunus cultivated for their showy white or pink single or double blossoms	a red the color of ripe cherries
	a red fruit with a single hard stone
	any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
	wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry

flowering cherry (adjective)	cherry (adjective)
	of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Difference between flowering cherry and cherry

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