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cherry-tree

cherry-tree is the archaic form of cherry tree.

Meaning of cherry tree

Noun

cherry tree (plural cherry trees)

  1. A tree of the subgenus Prunus subg. Cerasus, the members of which are valued agriculturally for their fruit, the cherry, and the wood of the tree, cherrywood, used in woodworking.

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Forms of cherry-tree

pluralcherry-trees

Questions about cherry-tree

What is cherry-tree the archaic form of?
Cherry-tree is the archaic form of cherry tree.

Words near cherry-tree in the dictionary

  1. cherry-poppers
  2. cherry-popping
  3. cherry-red
  4. cherry-stone
  5. cherry-stones
  6. cherry-tree
  7. cherry-trees
  8. cherryade
  9. cherryades
  10. Cherrybrook
  11. Cherrybum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cherry-tree (page history and authors); cherry tree (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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