redbud Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun small shrubby tree of eastern North America similar to the Judas tree having usually pink flowers; found in damp sheltered underwood
    Cercis canadensis.

WordNet

Red"bud` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.

Webster 1913