heart cherry

noun

1. a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry having soft flesh.
2. the tree bearing this fruit.

heart cherry

noun

1. a heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry

Word History and Origins

Origin of heart cherry¹

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

She certainly did look like a fresh white-heart cherry going to be bitten off the stem by that lipless mouth.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. Delmer sighed, and changed the subject, as the vicar came back, to the amount of blossom there was on the white-heart cherry.

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