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Prunus avium

DEFINITIONS OF: Prunus avium

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

Synonyms:
sweet cherry
Types:
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
Type of:
cherry, cherry tree
any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
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