(a) a dark-coloured sweet or sour cherry; esp. the fruit of any of several wild or cultivated varieties of the European Prunus avium or the North…

The wild cherry (Prunus avium), tree and fruit.

= duracine, n. Obsolete. rare.

A little cherry; used figuratively of a woman's lips, etc.

The sour fruit of a Eurasian cherry, probably a variety of the morello cherry, Prunus cerasus. Also: the wood of this tree or that of the related…

A morello cherry. Also morel cherry.

(Also cœur-cherry.) The heart cherry. Obsolete.

More fully bigarreau cherry. Any of a group of cultivated varieties of sweet cherry, Prunus avium (also bigarreau cherry tree); the fruit of such…

(a) a small, early kind of cherry; (b) U.S. any of various shrubs of the genus Amelanchier (family Rosaceae); cf. Juneberry n. at June, n.…

A dark variety of sour cherry, used chiefly in cooking; the tree producing this fruit (Prunus cerasus). Also morello cherry.

A cherry with a hard pulp.

Any of several cultivated varieties of sweet cherry producing dark-coloured fruit; (also) the fruit itself. Cf. heart cherry n. at heart, n. int.adv.…

Name of a kind of cherry.

A heart-shaped variety of cherry, typically with red skin and flesh (more fully red-heart cherry); the tree bearing this fruit (also red-heart cherr…

A variety of cherry. Obsolete. rare.

More fully May duke cherry. An early-ripening variety of duke cherry; the tree which bears this fruit.

Now chiefly North American. More fully ox-heart cherry. Any of several large, heart-shaped varieties of cherry; the tree bearing such fruit.

a shrub or small tree, Prunus pumila, of central North America, or a related species, P. besseyi, of the western states; also, the fruit of these…