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sweet cherry

DEFINITIONS OF: sweet cherry

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

Synonyms:
Prunus avium
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

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

Synonyms:
black cherry
Types:
bing cherry
dark red or blackish sweet cherry
heart cherry, oxheart, oxheart cherry
large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh
blackheart, blackheart cherry
heart cherry with dark flesh and skin cherry
Type of:
cherry
a red fruit with a single hard stone
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