dwarf flowering almond: small Chinese shrub with smooth unfurrowed dark red fruit grown especially for its red or pink or white flowers
vascular plant: green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms
scopes trial: a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed