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sour cherry

sour cherry noun: species of Prunus subg. Cerasus, (cherries), native to much of Europe and southwest Asia, especially, Prunus cerasus, Prunus pseudocerasus, and Prunus cerasoides.

sour cherry: species of Prunus subg. Cerasus, (cherries), native to much of Europe and southwest Asia,...
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Noun

sour cherry (plural sour cherries)

  1. Species of Prunus subg. Cerasus, (cherries), native to much of Europe and southwest Asia, especially, Prunus cerasus, Prunus pseudocerasus, and Prunus cerasoides.
  2. The fruit of these trees, often used for cooking.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sour, cherry.

sour cherry meaning in Tamil, Indonesian and Persian

sour cherry in Tamil

இது பழவகைகளுள் ஒன்றாகும்

sour cherry in Indonesian

Prunus cerasus
kersen
fruit
kersen

sour cherry in Persian

fruit
آلبالو âlbâlu

Synonyms of sour cherry

Forms of sour cherry

pluralsour cherries

Questions about sour cherry

What does sour cherry mean?
Sour cherry means species of Prunus subg. Cerasus, (cherries), native to much of Europe and southwest Asia, especially, Prunus cerasus, Prunus pseudocerasus, and Prunus cerasoides.
What is sour cherry in Tamil?
Sour cherry in Tamil is இது பழவகைகளுள் ஒன்றாகும். See Sour cherry meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sour cherry?
Sour cherry is a noun.
What is the plural of sour cherry?
The plural of sour cherry is sour cherries.

Words near sour cherry in the dictionary

  1. sour beer
  2. sour beers
  3. sour bread
  4. sour breads
  5. sour cherries
  6. sour cherry
  7. sour corn
  8. sour cream
  9. sour creams
  10. sour crude
  11. sour diesel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sour cherry (page history and authors); sour cherry (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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