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WILD CHERRY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An uncultivated cherry tree

Synonyms:

wild cherry; wild cherry tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("wild 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 "wild cherry"):

wild cherry (the fruit of the wild cherry tree)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild cherry"):

bird cherry; bird cherry tree (any of several small-fruited cherry trees frequented or fed on by birds)

black cherry; black cherry tree; Prunus serotina; rum cherry (large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The fruit of the wild cherry tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("wild cherry" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Holonyms ("wild cherry" is a part of...):

wild cherry; wild cherry tree (an uncultivated cherry tree)

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