Meaning

2 senses

  1. Prunus avium

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sweet, cherry.

More definitions
  • any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh
  • large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Is it a sour or sweet cherry?

    ruЭто вишня или черешня?

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  2. Sweet! The cherry tree's already blooming.

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Forms

plural: sweet cherries
Singularsweet cherry
Pluralsweet cherries

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
wild cherrygeanmazzard
Close in meaning
  • any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh:black cherry
  • large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation:Prunus avium

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sweetA1sweetensweetenersweetheartA2sweetie
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