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heart cherry

/hɑrt ˌtʃɛri/
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Other forms: heart cherries

Definitions of heart cherry
  1. noun
    any of several cultivated sweet cherries having sweet juicy heart-shaped fruits
    synonyms: oxheart, oxheart cherry
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    type of:
    Prunus avium, sweet cherry
    large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation
  2. noun
    large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh
    synonyms: oxheart, oxheart cherry
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    types:
    blackheart, blackheart cherry
    heart cherry with dark flesh and skin cherry
    type of:
    black cherry, sweet cherry
    any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh
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