BLACK CHERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black cherry mean? 

• BLACK CHERRY (noun)
  The noun BLACK CHERRY has 2 senses:

1. large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruit

2. any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh

  Familiarity information: BLACK CHERRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK CHERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black cherry; black cherry tree; Prunus serotina; rum cherry

Hypernyms ("black cherry" is a kind of...):

wild cherry; wild cherry tree (an uncultivated cherry tree)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

black cherry; sweet cherry

Hypernyms ("black cherry" is a kind of...):

cherry (a red fruit with a single hard stone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "black cherry"):

bing cherry (dark red or blackish sweet cherry)

heart cherry; oxheart; oxheart cherry (large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh)

Holonyms ("black cherry" is a part of...):

Prunus avium; sweet cherry (large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation)