sweet cherry

sweet cherry

n.

1. A large, widely cultivated deciduous tree (Prunus avium) of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having red-brown birchlike bark, white flowers, and sweet edible fruit.

2. The fruit of this tree.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sweet cherry - large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation Prunus avium black cherry, sweet cherry - any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh 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 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
	2.	sweet cherry - any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh black cherry cherry - a red fruit with a single hard stone bing cherry - dark red or blackish sweet cherry heart cherry, oxheart, oxheart cherry - large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh Prunus avium, sweet cherry - large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation