BLACK CHERRY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh

Synonyms:

black cherry; sweet cherry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("black cherry" is a kind of...):

cherry (a red fruit with a single hard stone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "black cherry"):

bing cherry (dark red or blackish sweet cherry)

heart cherry; oxheart; oxheart cherry (large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh)

Holonyms ("black cherry" is a part of...):

Prunus avium; sweet cherry (large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation)

Meaning:

Large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruit

Synonyms:

black cherry; black cherry tree; Prunus serotina; rum cherry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("black cherry" is a kind of...):

wild cherry; wild cherry tree (an uncultivated cherry tree)