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Definition of Cherry tree
1. Noun. Any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood.
Terms within: Cherry
Group relationships: Genus Prunus, Prunus
Terms within: Cherry
Specialized synonyms: Wild Cherry, Wild Cherry Tree, Prunus Avium, Sweet Cherry, Capulin, Capulin Tree, Prunus Capuli, Prunus Cerasus, Sour Cherry, Sour Cherry Tree, Catalina Cherry, Prunus Lyonii, Flowering Cherry, Chokecherry, Chokecherry Tree, Prunus Virginiana
Generic synonyms: Fruit Tree
Definition of Cherry tree
1. Noun. A tree of the subgenus (spelink Cerasus), the members of which are valued agriculturally for their fruit, the cherry. The wood of the tree, cherrywood, is also valued in woodworking. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cherry Tree
Literary usage of Cherry tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by George Lyman Kittredge (1896)
"The Cherry-Tree Carol,' Sylvester, A Garland of Christmas Carols, p. 45. d. '
The Cherry-Tree,' THE proper story of this highly popular carol is derived ..."
2. The Mother of Washington and Her Times by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (1903)
"Really, we cannot give up our cherry tree! It is deeply rooted. ... We positively
decline to bury the little hatchet or uproot the cherry tree ! ..."
3. American Ballads and Songs by Louise Pound (1922)
"19 THE cherry tree CAROL When Joseph was an old man, an old man was he, He married
Virgin ... The cherry tree bowed low down, bowed low down to the ground, ..."
4. Southern Writers: Selections in Prose and Verse by William Peterfield Trent (1905)
"The story of the cherry tree rests solely on Weems's authority and is of very
slight credibility; the account of Marion, which purported to be by Weems and ..."
5. Poetry for Children by Samuel Eliot (1879)
"REDDIE saw some fine ripe cherries Hanging on a cherry-tree, And he said, " You
pretty cherries. Will you not come down to me ? " "Thank you, kindly," said ..."
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