cherry tree

See also: Cherry Tree and cherry-tree

English

Alternative forms

• cherry-tree (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English cherietree, cheritree, chery-tre, cherytre, chiri tre, chiritre, chyrytree.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cherry tree (plural cherry trees)

1. A tree of the subgenus Prunus subg. Cerasus, the members of which are valued agriculturally for their fruit, the cherry, and the wood of the tree, cherrywood, used in woodworking.

Hypernyms

• tree

Translations

tree of subgenus Cerasus

Asturian: cerezal (ast) f, zrezal (ast) f Basque: gereziondo (eu) Catalan: cirerer (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 櫻桃樹 / 樱桃树 (yīngtáoshù) Czech: třešeň (cs) f Danish: kirsebærtræ (da) n Dutch: kersenboom (nl) m, kerselaar (nl) m Finnish: kirsikkapuu (fi) French: cerisier (fr) m Friulian: cjariesâr m, cesâr m, ceriesâr m, çariesâr m Galician: cerdeira (gl) f Gallo: badisier m German: Kirschbaum (de) m Hungarian: cseresznyefa (hu) Icelandic: kirsuberjatré (is) n Italian: ciliegio (it) m Japanese: 桜 (ja) (さくら、sakura) Kapampangan: Pûn sarésa Latin: cerasus f Lombard: sciresa (lmo) f Megleno-Romanian: cireș Norman: tchoeuryi m (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: kirsebærtre n Nynorsk: kirsebærtre n Polish: wiśnia (pl) f, czereśnia (pl) f Portuguese: cerejeira (pt) f Romanian: cireș (ro) m Russian: чере́шня (ru) f (čeréšnja) Spanish: cerezo (es) m Swedish: körsbärsträd (sv) n Vietnamese: anh đào (vi) Walloon: tchersî (wa) m, cerijhî (wa) m Welsh: coed ceirios f pl

References

• cherry tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia