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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

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Nouns denoting plants

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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