cherry

Synonyms:

cherry tree

Types:

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wild cherry, wild cherry tree

an uncultivated cherry tree

Prunus avium, sweet cherry

large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation

Prunus capuli, capulin, capulin tree

Mexican black cherry tree having edible fruit

Prunus cerasus, sour cherry, sour cherry tree

rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit

Catalina cherry, Prunus lyonii

evergreen shrub or small tree found on Catalina Island (California)

flowering cherry

any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Prunus cultivated for their showy white or pink single or double blossoms

Prunus virginiana, chokecherry, chokecherry tree

a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds

heart cherry, oxheart, oxheart cherry

any of several cultivated sweet cherries having sweet juicy heart-shaped fruits

gean, mazzard, mazzard cherry

wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting

Prunus cerasus caproniana, amarelle

any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice

Prunus cerasus austera, morello

any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice

Prunus cerasus marasca, marasca, marasca cherry, maraschino cherry

Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur

Prunus incisa, fuji, fuji cherry

shrubby Japanese cherry tree having pale pink blossoms

bird cherry, bird cherry tree

any of several small-fruited cherry trees frequented or fed on by birds

Prunus serotina, black cherry, black cherry tree, rum cherry

large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruit

Japanese cherry, Japanese flowering cherry, Prunus serrulata, oriental cherry

ornamental tree with inedible fruits widely cultivated in many varieties for its white blossoms

Japanese flowering cherry, Prunus sieboldii

ornamental tree with inedible fruit widely cultivated in many varieties for its pink blossoms

Prunus subhirtella, rosebud cherry, winter flowering cherry

shrub or tree native to Japan cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-pink flowers

Prunus demissa, Prunus virginiana demissa, western chokecherry

chokecherry of western United States

Type of:

fruit tree

tree bearing edible fruit

Types:

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black cherry, sweet cherry

any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh

Mexican black cherry, capulin

Mexican black cherry

sour cherry

acid cherries used for pies and preserves

bing cherry

dark red or blackish sweet cherry

heart cherry, oxheart, oxheart cherry

large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh

amarelle

pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice

morello

cultivated sour cherry with dark-colored skin and juice

Type of:

edible fruit

edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh

drupe, stone fruit

fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube

Type of:

wood

the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees