heart cherry
- noun
:
cereza corazón
- The orchard was full of ripe heart cherries ready to be picked.
Examples
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She topped her cake with a handful of fresh heart cherries.
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I bought some heart cherries from the farmer's market.
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Many people prefer the sweet taste of heart cherry over sour varieties.
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These heart cherries are incredibly sweet!
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Many people prefer the sweet taste of heart cherry over sour varieties.
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I bought some heart cherries from the farmer's market for my dessert.
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The orchard was full of ripe heart cherries ready to be picked this summer.
Synonyms
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A tree that grows sweet red fruit you can eat or the fruit it makes
A large sweet cherry shaped like a heart and very juicy
A large sweet cherry shaped like a heart with soft juicy flesh
A dark sweet cherry with deep red skin and flesh
A heart-shaped cherry with very dark skin and flesh
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'a large, sweet, heart-shaped cherry' is directly compositional from 'heart' (a heart-shaped form) + 'cherry' (the fruit); the compound denotes a cherry with a heart-like shape. This descriptive, non-idiomatic formation follows normal English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically plausible, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Heart cherry comes from the fruit's look: a big, sweet cherry that is shaped like a heart. So the name means 'a large, sweet, heart-shaped cherry'.