'Prunus Padus' definitions:
Definition of 'Prunus padus'
From: WordNet
noun
Small European cherry tree closely resembling the American chokecherry [syn: hagberry tree, European bird cherry, common bird cherry, Prunus padus]
Definition of 'Prunus Padus'
From: GCIDE
- Bird cherry \Bird" cher`ry\ (Bot.) A shrub (Prunus Padus ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Prunus Padus'
From: GCIDE
- Cherry \Cher"ry\ (ch[e^]r"r[y^]), n. [OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf. AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L. cerasus Cherry tree, Gr. keraso`s, perh. fr. ke`ras horn, from the hardness of the wood.]
- 1. (Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from M['e]doc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, Prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; Prunus Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; Prunus avium and Prunus Padus, European trees (bird cherry). [1913 Webster]
- 2. The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry. [1913 Webster]
- Barbadoes cherry. See under Barbadoes.
- Cherry bird (Zool.), an American bird; the cedar bird; -- so called from its fondness for cherries.
- Cherry bounce, cherry brandy and sugar.
- Cherry brandy, brandy in which cherries have been steeped.
- Cherry laurel (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Prunus Lauro-cerasus}) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds.
- Cherry pepper (Bot.), a species of Capsicum ({Capsicum cerasiforme}), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit.
- Cherry pit. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. --Shak. (b) A cherry stone.
- Cherry rum, rum in which cherries have been steeped.
- Cherry sucker (Zool.), the European spotted flycatcher (Musicapa grisola); -- called also cherry chopper cherry snipe.
- Cherry tree, a tree that bears cherries.
- Ground cherry, Winter cherry, See Alkekengi. [1913 Webster]