gean

gean

(ɡiːn)

n

1. (Plants) Also called: wild cherry a white-flowered rosaceous tree, Prunus avium, of Europe, W Asia, and N Africa, the ancestor of the cultivated sweet cherries

2. (Plants) See sweet cherry²

[C16: from Old French guine]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

gean - wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting mazzard, mazzard cherry Prunus avium, sweet cherry - large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation