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bird cherry

bird cherry noun: prunus padus or any deciduous species of Prunus subg. Padus that is closely related to it (tree or fruit).

bird cherry: prunus padus or any deciduous species of Prunus subg. Padus that is closely related to it (tree or...
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Noun

bird cherry (plural bird cherries)

  1. Prunus padus or any deciduous species of Prunus subg. Padus that is closely related to it (tree or fruit).
    • On the verdant slope and down by the edge of the water, the bird-cherry and the mountain ash displayed their flowery garb of summer.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280
  2. Pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica)
    Synonyms:
    pin berry, fire cherry
  3. (rare) Sweet cherry (Prunus avium).

Synonyms of bird cherry

All synonyms of bird cherry

Forms of bird cherry

pluralbird cherries

Words formed from bird cherry

  • American bird cherry
  • Asian bird cherry
  • bird-cherry ermine
  • European bird cherry
  • Himalayan bird cherry
  • Hokkaido bird cherry
  • Virginian bird cherry

Questions about bird cherry

What does bird cherry mean?
Bird cherry means prunus padus or any deciduous species of Prunus subg. Padus that is closely related to it (tree or fruit).
What part of speech is bird cherry?
Bird cherry is a noun.
What is the plural of bird cherry?
The plural of bird cherry is bird cherries.

Words near bird cherry in the dictionary

  1. bird burst
  2. bird bursts
  3. bird cage
  4. bird cages
  5. bird cherries
  6. bird cherry
  7. bird chorus
  8. bird choruses
  9. bird cliff
  10. bird cliffs
  11. bird colonel

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