heart cherry

noun

1. any of several cultivated sweet cherries having sweet juicy heart-shaped fruits

• Syn: ↑oxheart, ↑oxheart cherry

• Hypernyms: ↑sweet cherry, ↑Prunus avium

2. large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh

• Syn: ↑oxheart, ↑oxheart cherry

• Hypernyms: ↑sweet cherry, ↑black cherry

• Hyponyms: ↑blackheart, ↑blackheart cherry

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noun

: any of several cultivated sweet cherries with rather soft-fleshed heart-shaped fruits — compare bigarreau cherry, duke 5

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1. a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry having soft flesh.

2. the tree bearing this fruit. Also called gean.

[1590-1600]

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heart cherry,

a sweet cherry, having heart-shaped fruit with soft flesh.