oxheart cherry
- noun
:
cereza corazón de buey
- The oxheart cherry is prized for its juicy, heart-shaped fruit in summer desserts.
Examples
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Gardeners often recommend the oxheart cherry for its sweet taste and attractive appearance.
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She bought a basket of oxheart cherries at the farmers' market for making jam.
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I bought some oxheart cherries at the market.
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The oxheart cherry is my favorite fruit.
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I picked some fresh oxheart cherries from the tree for dessert because they are so sweet and juicy.
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The chef used ripe oxheart cherries to make a delicious cherry pie that everyone loved.
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At the farmer's market, I found a basket full of large, plump oxheart cherries perfect for snacking.
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 fruit with a heart shape that people eat fresh
A heart-shaped cherry with very dark skin and flesh
A dark sweet cherry with deep red skin and flesh
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward noun–noun compound: 'oxheart' specifies a variety/shape and 'cherry' names the fruit, so the overall meaning (a cherry of the oxheart/heart-shaped type) is directly inferable from the parts. The composition follows regular English naming patterns for varieties (X cherry), making it transparent to learners who know both constituents.
Etymology
Oxheart cherry may come from a simple image: the fruit is very large and looks like a heart, so people compared it to an ox's heart. That's why the name now means a big, sweet cherry often eaten fresh.