(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.

More fully mazzard cherry. A small, dark, sweet cherry of Devon origin, the fruit of a variety of the wild cherry or gean, Prunus avium. Also: the…

humorous. The head. Now archaic.

The gean or wild cherry, Prunus avium (also merry-tree). Also: the small, usually black fruit of this tree.

a variety of cherry grown in England, thought to have been introduced from Flanders.

any of numerous cultivated varieties of cherry having heart-shaped fruit; the fruit of such a variety; cf. sense A. 27b.

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.

see quot.

any of a group of varieties of sweet cherry bearing heart-shaped fruits with whitish skins and flesh; a fruit of such a variety. Cf. black heart, n.…

A cherry with a hard pulp.

spec. Any of numerous cultivated varieties of cherry having heart-shaped fruit; a fruit of such a variety; = heart cherry n. at compounds 3b…

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 variety of cherry.

Name of a kind of cherry.

a sweet variety of cherry.

A variety of cherry. Also nonsuch cherry. Obsolete.

A small bitter black cherry, the fruit of a variety of the gean, Prunus avium; the tree that bears this fruit. Cf. merry, n.

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.

The name of a variety of cherry.

= white-heart cherry n. at sense A. 1.

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

†(a) (in full Royal Ann peach) a variety of peach (obsolete rare); (b) (chiefly North American) a variety of bigarreau cherry, having red skin…

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

A variety of sour cherry; spec. (in later use) the morello. Now rare.

Two North American species of cherries, with astringent properties; also the trees, Prunus borealis and P. hyemalis, the latter called more fully bl…

any of several wild cherry trees (Prunus species) (also mountain cherry tree); (also) the fruit of any of these trees.

the wild black cherry, Prunus serotina, of eastern North America; (also) the small, sweet fruit produced by this tree, used to make preserves and…

the common cherry.

In full Napoleon Bigarreau. A variety of white-fleshed bigarreau cherry; a tree bearing this fruit. Cf. Napoleon cherry n. at compounds.

= sense 5.