common bird cherry

Questions about common bird cherry

What does common bird cherry mean?

common bird cherry means "small European cherry tree closely resembling the American chokecherry".

What is another word for common bird cherry?

Close synonyms include hagberry tree, European bird cherry, Prunus padus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common bird cherry a common word?

common bird cherry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.