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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A large, widely cultivated deciduous tree (Prunus avium) of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having red-brown bark, white flowers, and sweet edible fruit.
  • noun The fruit of this tree.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh
  • noun large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation

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