wild cherry
- noun
- /waɪld ˈʧɛri/
:
cereza silvestre
- We walked over to a gnarled, windblown wild cherry, about fifteen feet high.
- wild cherry tree
Examples
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"He pointed out to me all the scrub oak, wild cherry, and other assorted trees, none taller than twenty feet high.
Fiction book (1997) -
Looks like this is wild cherry, I'm guessing.
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"The chestnuts and wild cherry trees still colored the slopes, and beyond them, Melanie could see the Alps.
Fiction book (1997) -
I climbed the tall wild cherry tree to pick the small, tart fruits.
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Every spring, the wild cherry trees burst into beautiful white blossoms, attracting many bees.
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The forest was filled with wild cherry trees, their fragrant flowers signaling the arrival of summer.
Synonyms
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1.0
A tree or shrub that makes small round fruit with one hard stone
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1.0
A tree or shrub that grows small round fruit with one hard stone
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2.9
A small red fruit that tastes sour and is used for cooking or baking
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3.0
A small dark red to almost black round fruit from a tree that tastes sweet
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9.9
A wild sweet cherry tree used as the root for grafting cultivated cherries
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2.9
A small tree that grows in the wild and produces cherries
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8.3
A wild North American cherry tree with small dark berries that taste bitter and attract birds
A large North American wild cherry tree with black sour fruit
A large North American tree that has small black sour fruit people can eat
A large North American cherry tree with dark sour fruit and strong wood
A small wild tree with bitter black cherries that birds eat
A small wild cherry tree with red or black fruit that birds often eat
A small tree that makes tart red cherries often used in cooking and jam
A small tree from Europe and Asia that makes red or dark sour cherries used for pies
A sour cherry tree that makes pale red fruit with almost clear juice
A wild Dalmatian cherry tree whose bitter fruit is used to make a sweet alcoholic cherry drink
A large tree from Europe and Asia that makes sweet cherries people eat
An evergreen shrub or small tree with spiny leathery leaves and white flowers from California
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Morphology
The meaning 'a cherry tree or fruit that grows naturally' is directly and transparently composed from 'wild' (growing naturally, not cultivated) plus 'cherry' (the tree/fruit). This noun-noun composition is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Wild cherry is a noun that comes from the simple picture of a wild cherry tree that grows naturally in the woods, not planted in a garden. Its small, tart fruits are often eaten by birds, so the name means 'a cherry that grows naturally' or 'a small, tart fruit'.