JUDAS TREE


Meaning of JUDAS TREE in English

1. a purple-flowered Eurasian tree, Cercis siliquastrum, of the legume family, supposed to be the kind upon which Judas hanged himself.

2. any of various other trees of the same genus, as the redbud.

[ 1660-70 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .