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SWEET CHERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("sweet cherry" is a kind of...):
cherry (a red fruit with a single hard stone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sweet cherry"):
bing cherry (dark red or blackish sweet cherry)
heart cherry; oxheart; oxheart cherry (large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh)
Holonyms ("sweet 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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation
Synonyms:
Prunus avium; sweet cherry
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sweet cherry" 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 "sweet cherry"):
black cherry; sweet cherry (any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sweet cherry"):
heart cherry; oxheart; oxheart cherry (any of several cultivated sweet cherries having sweet juicy heart-shaped fruits)
gean; mazzard; mazzard cherry (wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting)
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