sour cherry

Questions about sour cherry

What does sour cherry mean?

sour cherry means "rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sour cherry?

Close synonyms include sour cherry tree, Prunus cerasus, Eugenia corynantha. 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 sour cherry a common word?

sour cherry is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.