cherry apple
- noun
- Indian
:
manzano silvestre
- The orchard features several varieties of cherry apple known for their tart flavor.
Examples
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You can use cherry apple fruit to make a delicious homemade jelly.
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The cherry apple tree blooms beautifully in spring.
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Each autumn, the bright red cherry apple trees add color to the garden.
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I made a pie with cherry apples from the orchard.
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The orchard features several varieties of cherry apple known for their tart flavor.
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You can use cherry apple fruit to make a delicious homemade jelly.
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I made a pie with cherry apples from the orchard.
Synonyms
A small wild apple tree from Asia grown for its sour fruit and white spring flowers
A small tree that makes tart red apples used to make jam
A small hardy tree that makes sour red apples used for jam
A small tree that makes red sour fruit used for jam
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward noun-noun compound where the first noun ('cherry') specifies a subtype of the second noun ('apple'), so a B1 learner who knows both words can reasonably infer it denotes a small/red apple resembling or related to cherries. The compositional, descriptive pattern (modifier + head noun) is common across languages and follows standard English compounding, making the meaning predictable from the constituents.
Etymology
Cherry apple comes from the picture of very small, bright red fruits that look like a cherry but are really a tiny apple on the tree. Because they are small and sour and good for jams and jellies, the name now means 'a small, sour apple used in preserves'.
