heart cherry


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heart cherry

n
(Plants) a heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.heart cherry - any of several cultivated sweet cherries having sweet juicy heart-shaped fruitsheart cherry - any of several cultivated sweet cherries having sweet juicy heart-shaped fruits
Prunus avium, sweet cherry - large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation
2.heart cherry - large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh
black cherry, sweet cherry - any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh
blackheart cherry, blackheart - heart cherry with dark flesh and skin cherry
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References in classic literature ?
She certainly did look like a fresh white- heart cherry going to be bitten off the stem by that lipless mouth.
seventeen--she is moonlight and sunshine, a heart cherry,