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CHERRY TREE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood

Synonyms:

cherry; cherry tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "cherry tree"):

cherry (a red fruit with a single hard stone)

Meronyms (substance of "cherry tree"):

cherry (wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry)

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

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

Prunus avium; sweet cherry (large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation)

capulin; capulin tree; Prunus capuli (Mexican black cherry tree having edible fruit)

Prunus cerasus; sour cherry; sour cherry tree (rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit)

Catalina cherry; Prunus lyonii (evergreen shrub or small tree found on Catalina Island (California))

flowering cherry (any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Prunus cultivated for their showy white or pink single or double blossoms)

chokecherry; chokecherry tree; Prunus virginiana (a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds)

Holonyms ("cherry tree" 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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