sour cherry

sour cherry

n.

1. A deciduous shrub or small tree (Prunus cerasus) having white flowers and tart red fruit.

2. The edible fruit of this plant.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sour cherry - rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit Prunus cerasus, sour cherry tree cherry tree, cherry - any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood 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 cherry, maraschino cherry, Prunus cerasus marasca, marasca - Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur
	2.	sour cherry - Australian tree with sour red fruit Eugenia corynantha Eugenia, genus Eugenia - tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit
	3.	sour cherry - acid cherries used for pies and preserves cherry - a red fruit with a single hard stone amarelle - pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice morello - cultivated sour cherry with dark-colored skin and juice