heart cherry
noun
a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry having soft flesh.
the tree bearing this fruit.
Origin of heart cherry
1First recorded in 1590–1600
- Also called gean.
Words Nearby heart cherry
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How to use heart cherry in a sentence
She certainly did look like a fresh white-heart cherry going to be bitten off the stem by that lipless mouth.
Brother Jacob | George EliotMrs. Delmer sighed, and changed the subject, as the vicar came back, to the amount of blossom there was on the white-heart cherry.
What Not | Rose Macaulay
British Dictionary definitions for heart cherry
heart cherry
noun
a heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry
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