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    SOUR CHERRY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Acid cherries used for pies and preservesplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

    cherry (a red fruit with a single hard stone)

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

    amarelle (pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice)

    morello (cultivated sour cherry with dark-colored skin and juice)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Australian tree with sour red fruitplay

    Synonyms:

    Eugenia corynantha; sour cherry

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

    Holonyms ("sour cherry" is a member of...):

    Eugenia; genus Eugenia (tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood)

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    Rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruitplay

    Synonyms:

    Prunus cerasus; sour cherry; sour cherry tree

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("sour 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)

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

    amarelle; Prunus cerasus caproniana (any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice)

    morello; Prunus cerasus austera (any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice)

    marasca; marasca cherry; maraschino cherry; Prunus cerasus marasca (Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur)

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