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PRUNUS AVIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("Prunus avium" 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 avium"):
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 "Prunus avium"):
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)
