Definition of Common bird cherry

1. Noun. Small European cherry tree closely resembling the American chokecherry.

Exact synonyms: European Bird Cherry, Hagberry Tree, Prunus Padus
Group relationships: Genus Prunus, Prunus
Generic synonyms: Bird Cherry, Bird Cherry Tree
Terms within: Hagberry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Bird Cherry

common barberry
common barley
common basal vein
common basil
common bean
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common beans
common bearberry
common beech
common beet
common bile duct
common bile duct calculi
common bile duct diseases
common bile duct neoplasms
common birch
common bird cherry (current term)
common blackfish
common blue
common blues
common bog rosemary
common boneset
common booklouse
common box
common brant goose
common broom
common bullfinch
common bullfinches
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common buzzard

Literary usage of Common bird cherry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"the Common Bird-Cherry. Leaves oblong, cuspidate, rugose, simply serrated, deciduous. Flowers in racemes much longer than the leaves. ..."

2. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1836)
"C. Padua, the common bird cherry. Leaves oblong, cuspidate, rugose, simply serrated, deciduous. Flowers in racemes much longer than the leaves. ..."

3. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"The common Bird Cherry is a tree rather for the park and woodland than the garden proper, but the Manchurian and double-flowered varieties fully deserve a ..."

4. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson, F. L. S., William Robinson (1906)
"The common Bird Cherry is a tree rather for the park and woodland than the garden proper, but the Manchurian and double-flowered varieties fully deserve a ..."

5. The English Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground: Design and Arrangement Shown by William Robinson (1899)
"The common Bird Cherry is a tree rather for the park and woodland than the garden proper, but the Manchurian and double-flowered varieties fully deserve a ..."

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