cherry tree

See also: Cherry Tree and cherry-tree

English

A cherry tree

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
• 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
• 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

References

• cherry tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia