sweet cherry

Questions about sweet cherry

What does sweet cherry mean?

sweet cherry means "large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sweet cherry?

Close synonyms include Prunus avium, black cherry. 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 sweet cherry a common word?

sweet cherry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.