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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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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