COMMON BIRD CHERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common bird cherry mean? 

• COMMON BIRD CHERRY (noun)
  The noun COMMON BIRD CHERRY has 1 sense:

1. small European cherry tree closely resembling the American chokecherry

  Familiarity information: COMMON BIRD CHERRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON BIRD CHERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small European cherry tree closely resembling the American chokecherry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

common bird cherry; European bird cherry; hagberry tree; Prunus padus

Hypernyms ("common bird cherry" is a kind of...):

bird cherry; bird cherry tree (any of several small-fruited cherry trees frequented or fed on by birds)

Meronyms (parts of "common bird cherry"):

hagberry (small cherry much liked by birds)

Holonyms ("common bird cherry" is a member of...):

genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)