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PRUNUS VIRGINIANA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds
Synonyms:
chokecherry; chokecherry tree; Prunus virginiana
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Prunus virginiana" is a kind of...):
cherry; cherry tree (any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood)
Meronyms (parts of "Prunus virginiana"):
chokecherry (the fruit of the chokecherry tree)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Prunus virginiana"):
Prunus demissa; Prunus virginiana demissa; western chokecherry (chokecherry of western United States)
Holonyms ("Prunus virginiana" is a member of...):
genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)
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