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.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.