sweet cherry


noun
  1. a cherry tree, Prunus avium, characterized by reddish-brown bark and a pyramidal manner of growth.

  2. the red, purplish-black, or yellow, edible, sweet fruit of this tree.

Origin of sweet cherry

1
First recorded in 1900–05

Words Nearby sweet cherry

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How to use sweet cherry in a sentence

  • "Kerasos" was the sweet cherry in ancient Greece and from kerasos came cerasus, used by many botanists as the name of the genus.

    The Cherries of New York | U. P. Hedrick

British Dictionary definitions for sweet cherry

sweet cherry

noun
  1. either of two types of cherry tree that are cultivated for their red edible sweet fruit, the gean having tender-fleshed fruit, the bigarreau having firm-fleshed fruit

  2. the fruit of any of these trees: See also heart cherry

  • Also called: dessert cherry

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