cherry

→ Bengali: চেরি (ceri)

→ Burmese: ချယ်ရီ (hkyairi)

→ Cantonese: 車厘子／车厘子 (ce¹ lei⁴ zi²)

→ Hindi: चेरी (cerī)

→ Japanese: チェリー (cherī)

→ Kapampangan: tiéri

→ Korean: 체리 (cheri)

→ Malay: ceri

Indonesian: ceri

→ Maori: tiere

→ Punjabi: ਚੈਰੀ f (cairī)

→ Spanish: cherry

→ Swahili: cheri

→ Urdu: چیری (cerī)

→ Thai: เชอร์รี (chəə-rîi)

From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise and kirsch.

dwarf cherry

P. fruticosa, P. pumila; Exocarpus strictus

Prunus subg. Cerasus
Prunus subg. Cerasus#Translingual

Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.

Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v#x5F;1#x5C;inT#x5F;1

2004, Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp, S Muthukrishnan, Ugur Dogrusoz, Combinatorial Pattern Matching, Berlin […] : Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 210:

Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 2

2005, Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels, Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 74:

(graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.

kahdesta lehtisolmusta koostuva alipuu

graph theory: subtree consisting of two nodes

The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.

2000, Woorkheri Raman, “Indians adopt safety first tactics”, in ESPNcricinfo, archived from the original on 2022-07-07, retrieved 2024-11-25:

Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry.

2007, Ben Dirs, “England v West Indies 1st Test”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2016-04-09, retrieved 2024-11-25:

(cricket, slang) A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.


cherry

en-adj

cherry (comparative cherrier or more cherry, superlative cherriest or most cherry)

cherrier (comparative)
more cherry (comparative)
cherriest (superlative)
most cherry (superlative)

cornelian cherry

Cornus subg. Arctocrania, C. subg. Cornus, C. mas

A few years earlier, I’d restored my ’65 Mustang convertible to cherry condition—fire engine red, with matching tuck-and-roll—and I wasn’t surprised that it drew attention.

2003, John Morgan Wilson, Blind Eye, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 108:

All of my action figures are cherry

2006, “White & Nerdy”, in "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics), Straight Outta Lynwood, performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic:

(informal, often of cars) In excellent condition; mint condition.


queen

Tok Pisin: kwin

desc

⇒ American Sign Language: G@Shoulder-PalmDown G@Abdomen-PalmDown

→ Burmese: ကွင်း (kwang:)

→ German: Queen

→ Japanese: クイーン (kuīn), クィーン (kwīn)

→ Korean: 퀸 (kwin)

→ Marshallese: kwiin

→ Sikaiana: kuini

→ Spanish: cuina

→ Thai: ควีน (kwiin)

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”).
Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon quān ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Norwegian kvinne (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to and possibly merged with and/or absorbed some senses of English quean, from Middle English quene, from Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”) (see Modern English regina). Doublet of quean and gyne.

gloss

"wife"; > Middle Low German <i class="Latn mention" lang="gml">quene</i> (“elderly woman”)

cog

[…] and yet I will not ſay but amongſt duſt there is Pearle found, and in hard rockes Dyamonds of great value, and ſo amongſt many women there are ſome good, as that gracious and glorious Queene of all woman kinde the Virgin Mary the mother of al bliſſe, what wun her honour, but an humble minde and her paines and loue vnto our Sauiour Chriſt.

1620, Thomas Tell-Troth [pseudonym of Joseph Swetnam], The Araignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women: Or the Vanitie of Them, Choose You Whether, London, published 1807, retrieved 2022-01-14:

A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.

(Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).


plum

→ Cornish: ploum

→ Haida: pláms

→ Manx: plumbis

→ Japanese: プラム (puramu)

→ Scottish Gaelic: plumas

→ Thai: พลัม (plam)

From Middle English plomme, ploume, from Old English plūme, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, borrowed from Latin prūnum. Doublet of prune.

Indian plum

esp Flacourtia indica; Osmaronia cerasiformis

An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.

Prunus domestica
Prunus domestica#Translingual

The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.

Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums

Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)

Prunus angustifolia
Prunus angustifolia#Translingual

Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)

Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)

Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)

Prunus subcordata
Prunus subcordata#Translingual


peach

en-noun

peach (countable and uncountable, plural peaches)

i

from the plural <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">peaches</i>

→ Abenaki: biches (from the plural peaches)

→? Arapaho: biisib

→ Bengali: পীচ (pic) (probably)

→ Haida: píichas

→ Malay: pic (probably)

→? Maori: pītiti

→ Swahili: pichi (probably)

→ Thai: พีช (píit)

From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogʒe, from Old English persoc, from the same Latin root above.

der

μᾶλον περσικόν

I think it the best way to plant the fifteen sorts, and the hard Peaches I have mentioned, in the same order as they stand in the list.

1768, M. Combles, A Treatise Upon the Culture of Peach Trees, page 8:

Several attempts have been made to class the varieties of Peaches and Nectarines by the leaf and flower, as well as the fruit.

1840, Thomas Bridgeman, The Young Gardener’s Assistant, page 136:

Scattered plantings of peaches are maintained on the light-textured deep alluvial soils of the Foster, Cajon, Hanford, Hesperia, and Greenfield series west of Porterville, near Woodville, Poplar, Sausalito School, and farther south along the Kern County boundary line north of Delano.

1942, Raymond Earl Storie, Soil Survey, the Pixley Area, California, volume 1, page 11:

State universities and U.S. Department of Agriculture facilities have largely replaced the private state and national pomological and horticultural organizations as the primary researchers for peach cultivation.

2014, Melissa Walker, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, volume 11, page 183:

Prunus persica
Prunus persica#Translingual

(countable) Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.


prune

en-verb

prune (third-person singular simple present prunes, present participle pruning, simple past and past participle pruned)

prunes (present singular third-person)
pruning (participle present)
pruned (participle past)
pruned (past)

From Middle English prune, from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *prūna, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦνον (proûnon), variant of προῦμνον (proûmnon, “plum”), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor. Doublet of plum.

I hardly left that spot in my pool that month even when my fingers pruned and chlorine dried out my skin.

2005, Alycia Ripley, Traveling with an Eggplant, page 111:

(intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.


almond

en-noun

almond (countable and uncountable, plural almonds)

From Middle English almond, almaund, from Old French almande, amande, from Vulgar Latin *amendla, *amandula, from Latin amygdala, from Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē), of uncertain origin. Influenced by amandus and by many European words of Arabic origin beginning with the Arabic definite article Arabic ال (al-). Compare Spanish almóndiga and Portuguese almôndega (“meatball”) from Andalusian Arabic البُنْدُقَة (“hazelnut”). Doublet of amygdala, amygdale, and mandorla.

doublet

Other plants that produce almond-like nuts:

Prunus andersonii, desert almond, a North American shrub in family Rosaceae


apricot

en-noun

apricot (countable and uncountable, plural apricots)

Alteration of apricock (with influence from French abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from Latin apricum (“sunny place”)), from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”). Doublet of precocious.

der

pickled apricots

A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.

Prunus armeniaca
Prunus armeniaca#Translingual

(slang, Australia, dated, usually in the plural) A testicle.


gage

A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.


sloe

From Middle English slo, sla, sloo, from Old English slā, slāh, from Proto-West Germanic *slaihā, from Proto-Germanic *slaihǭ, *slaihwō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”). Doublet of Sliwa.

Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit.

luumu

tree of the genus Prunus bearing dark-purple fruit


hag

From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse, hægtes (“harpy, witch”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Häkse (“witch”), Dutch heks, German Hexe (“witch”). Doublet of hex.

A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.


almond tree

Prunus amygdalus
Prunus amygdalus#Translingual

A tree that bears almonds (Prunus amygdalus).

Terminalia catappa
Terminalia catappa#Translingual

An Indian almond tree (Terminalia catappa).


napoleon

en-noun

napoleon (countable and uncountable, plural napoleons)

/nəˈpəʊlɪən/

Borrowed from French Napoléon (“given name, usually in reference to Napoleon Bonaparte”). In reference to coins, via French napoléon (“(slang) a coin that originally had the appearance of Napoleon's face in the obverse”). In reference to guns and possibly cards, in reference to Napoleon III.

bor

Always an eloquent speaker, Polk became known as the Napoleon of the stump.

2011, Robert Morgan, Lions of the West::

(fashion, obsolete) Clipping of Napoleon boot: a form of topboot worn by officers during the Napoleonic Wars.

Napoleon boot

(historical weaponry) Clipping of Napoleon gun: a 12-pounder cannon first used by the Second French Empire.

наполео́н

12-pounder cannon of the Second French Empire

Fascinated, Miss Manvers thrust aside a garnished plate, took a gulp of the decoction called coffee, and attacked her napoleon.

1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 1:

(food, originally US slang) Clipping of Napoleon cake: another name for a millefeuille pastry.


aprium

A three-quarter apricot is an aprium, which is very apricotlike in tree type and fruit. Plumcots are extremely flavorful fruits that tend to bear poorly for the first few years.

2007, The home orchard: growing your own deciduous fruit and nut trees (ISBN-10: 1-879906-72-4), page 33

For an excellent plain Aprium jam, you may omit the almonds.

2010, Rachel Saunders, Sara Remington, The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook, page 140:

When the puppet is finished, we wander through the farmer's market and stop at the local foods booth, where our friend Aaron lets us sample farm-direct apriums. Amy spots a bevy of belly dancers and says she wants to watch.

2010, Michael Perry, Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg, page 216:

(neologism) A plum-apricot cross, with characteristics of both fruits.


pluot

A portmanteau from blend of plum + apricot. Compare earlier plumcot.

A fruit which is a cross between a Japanese plum and an apricot, featuring more characteristics of plums than those of apricots.


skeg

From a dialectal term for a stump, branch, or wooden peg; compare Swedish skog. Compare also shaw.

Some take them for Damascen plums, or rather for Bullois, Skegs, or such like wilde Plums.

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

Prunus spinosa
Prunus spinosa#Translingual

(obsolete) A sort of wild plum (Prunus spinosa or Prunus domestica subsp. insititia (syn. Prunus institia)).


gean

From Middle French guine (modern French guigne).

Thus in the early year the blue pearl clusters of the grape hyacinth bloomed, and in autumn the geans rejoiced us with the red Chinese lantern gleam of their fruit.

1947 [1939], Ernst Jünger, translated by Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs, New Directions, translation of Auf den Marmorklippen (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:

‘Given the circumstances, Effie,’ he whispered, ‘I could blossom again like a gean-tree.’

1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 45:

(now dialectal) A wild cherry tree, Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia or its small, dark fruit.


blackthorn

/ˈblækˌθɔːn/

/ˈblækˌθɔɹn/

A large shrub or small tree, Prunus spinosa, that is native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. It has a dark bark and bears thorns.

إِجَّاص شَائِك

ʔijjāṣ šāʔik


damson

From Middle English damascene, damasyn, damacene, from Latin prūnum damascēnum (“Damascene plum, plum of Damascus”). Doublet of damascene.

der

A subspecies of plum tree, Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, native to Eurasia.


slivovitz

en-noun

slivovitz (countable and uncountable, plural slivovitzes)

From Serbo-Croatian šljȉvovica, шљи̏вовица (“slivovitz”), from šljȉva, шљи̏ва (“plum”) + -ica, -ица (suffix forming a feminine noun, often a diminutive). Šljȉva may be derived from Proto-Indo-European *sliwo-, the suffixed form of *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”), describing the colour of the fruit.

The spirit called Sirmischer Slivovitz is met with at Trieste. It is distilled from fermented plums, and is made in Sirmia near Belgrade. This kind of spirit is also in use at Vienna and Prague.

1820, W[illiam] A[rchibald] Cadell, chapter I, in A Journey in Carniola, Italy, and France, in the Years 1817, 1818, […] In Two Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. Cheapside, →OCLC, page 18:

Four fairs are held at Pest annually; and while they last, it is calculated that 20,000 strangers and 14,000 waggons pass the outer lines. 8000 large barges unload at the quay in the course of the year: the principal trade lies in wines, raw hides, honey, wax, and a vile spirit, called Slivovitz, made from plums.

1850, “Route 282. The Danube (F[rance]).—Presburg to Pest.”, in A Hand-book for Travellers in Southern Germany; […], 5th corrected and enlarged edition, London: John Murray, […] ; Paris: A[nthony] & W[illiam] Galignani & Co.; Stassin and Xavier; Leipzig: Longman, →OCLC, section XV (Hungary), page 420, column 1:

There is a great abundance of all the necessaries of life and even many of its luxuries, as game, fish, very good wine, tobacco, plum brandy (‘slivovitz’), an excellent spirit, and silk in considerable quantity.

1872 September, “D.”, “Servia”, in James Anthony Froude, editor, Fraser’s Magazine, volume VI, number XXXIII (New Series), London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 351, column 1:

"There is a flask of slivovitz (the plum brandy of the country) underneath the seat, if you should require it."

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1899, page 11:

We went in the hotel bar, sat down and proceeded to order some Slivovitz. When I first tasted it I thought that it was nice, but it tasted so much like apple cider that I said to myself, "This stuff ain't so bad," and, before long, I had ordered many of these bad drinks.

1986, Buck Clayton, assisted by Nancy Miller Elliott, “Humphrey Lyttelton and My English Tours”, in Buck Clayton’s Jazz World, Basingstoke, Hampshire, London: The Macmillan Press, →ISBN, page 176:

[W]hen I reach the bridge and begin to run across it, I will pray that the sniper who killed old man Samir yesterday and little Lejla the day before, is looking the other way, or moving position as the snipers do, or warming his fingers round a mug of hot coffee, or glancing up and downing a slivovic.

1996, Gordon Stevens, chapter 1, in Kara’s Game, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 31:

It is almost impossible to attend a meeting, visit someone at home, or even call upon the sisters at the monastery and not be offered slivovic. Morning, noon, or night … it doesn't matter. When my meeting with the pcelari ended, Mesam presented me with a gift. It was a bottle of slivovic.

2008, Frank E. Wismer III, “The Reverend Canon Andrew White”, in War in the Garden of Eden: A Military Chaplain’s Memoir from Baghdad, New York, N.Y.: Seabury Books, →ISBN, pages 33–34:

(countable, uncountable) A type of rakija made mostly in Eastern European countries from distilled, fermented plum juice.

Schligowitz

rakija made from distilled, fermented plum juice


hackberry

hackberry (countable and uncountable, plural hackberries)

Lindheimer's hackberry (Celtis lindheimeri

Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Celtis, widespread over the Northern Hemisphere, having small fruit.


sakura

Borrowed from Japanese 桜(さくら) (sakura, “cherry tree”).

In his hand, he holds a sakura. He plans to give it to his daughter, marking a milestone in her life and protection for the future.

2022, Rajah E. Smart, Felicia M. Banks, The Sakura Cloud, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

cherry blossom (blossom of the Japanese cherry tree)

سَاكُورَا

blossom of the Japanese cherry tree — see also cherry blossom


plum brandy

plum brandy (usually uncountable, plural plum brandies)

A distilled alcoholic drink made with plums.


ume

Japanese apricot, a species of Asian plum, Prunus mume.


greengage

/ˈɡɹiːnɡeɪd͡ʒ/

By surface analysis, green + gage.
alternative etymology
The legend goes that Sir William Gage, 2nd Baronet of Hengrave, (c. 1656–1727), had a shipment of plums from France, in which the labels of the reine-claude got lost, by which reason his gardener called it after his master. Horticulturist Peter Collinson reports in his notes edited by L. W. Dillwyn in 1843, page 60: I was on a visit to Sir William Gage, at Hengrave, near Bury; he was then near 70; he told me that he first brought over, from France, the Grosse reine Claude, and introduced it into England, and in compliment to him the Plum was called the Green Gage; this was about the year 1725. Contrary to the common story however here the French name is known to the baronet, and it could consequentially completely be a running joke, in that he exploited a coincidental likeness of his name to a plant name to become part of history. An older term denoting the very same plum cultivar, which ultimately derives from the Near East, via the Sublime Porte under Kanuni Süleyman, is found in Persian گوجه سبز (gowje sabz)

named-after

The apricot rarely produces any fruit, except in a few places, and then very scantily. The greengage plum is nearly equally unproductive.

1834, John Forbes, “Sketch of the Medical Topography of the Hundred of Penwith”, in Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, volume 2, page 66:

Just where the horse trams trundled across the market was a row of fruit stalls, with fruit blazing in the sun—apples and piles of reddish oranges, small greengage plums and bananas.

1913, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 5, in Sons and Lovers:

A plum cultivar with greenish-yellow flesh and skin, Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana.

Hengrave
Peter Collinson (botanist)
Rokewode-Gage baronets
Sublime Porte
Suleiman the Magnificent

جَانَرِك

a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin


nectarine

en-adj

nectarine (comparative more nectarine, superlative most nectarine)

more nectarine (comparative)
most nectarine (superlative)

[…] to their supper-fruits they fell,
Nectarine fruits which the compliant boughs
Yielded them, side-long as they sat recline
On the soft downy bank damasked with flowers […]

1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IV), Book 4, lines 329-332:


kirsch

en-noun

kirsch (usually uncountable, plural kirsches)

Borrowed from French kirsch, from German Kirschwasser (“cherry water”). Doublet of cerise and cherry.

(often capitalized) A clear brandy made from black cherries: kirschwasser.


plum tree

From Middle English plumtre, from Old English plūmtrēow; equivalent to plum + tree.


plum wine

plum wine (usually uncountable, plural plum wines)

plum + wine, plum being the traditional (though inaccurate) translation of ume, a Japanese fruit closely related to the apricot.


Hedelfinger

A cultivar of the wild cherry, Prunus avium


wild cherry

Prunus serotina
Prunus serotina#Translingual

A tree of species Prunus serotina, native to North America.


chokecherry

From choke + cherry, so called from the extreme astringency of the fresh fruit.

The youngster-loved chokecherry grows both as a bushy shrub and as a tree seldom higher than 22 feet, its branches bending with clusters of darkening red or blackish purple berrylike drupes . . .

1981, Bradford Angier, Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants:

Prunus virginiana
Prunus virginiana#Translingual

Any of several American wild cherry trees, especially Prunus virginiana.

черемха

Canada [by analogy with European bird cherry]


cherry blossom

cherry blossom (countable and uncountable, plural cherry blossoms)

The blossom or flower of the cherry tree, particularly the Japanese cherry (Prunus serrulata).


quetsch

quetsch (countable and uncountable, plural quetsches)

From French quetsche, from Lorraine German Quetsche (standard German Zwetschge), ultimately from Latin damascēna. Doublet of damson.


marasca

Prunus cerasus
Prunus cerasus#Translingual

A European cultivar of the wild cherry, Prunus cerasus, that bears bright red fruit used for making maraschino.


scrog

scrog (countable and uncountable, plural scrogs)

Compare scrag, or Scottish Gaelic sgrogag (“anything shriveled”), from sgrag (“to compress, shrivel”).

cog

(Scotland, countable) The crab-apple tree.


cherry tree

From Middle English cherietree, cheritree, chery-tre, cherytre, chiri tre, chiritre, chyrytree.

A tree of the subgenus Prunus subg. Cerasus, the members of which are valued agriculturally for their fruit, the cherry, and the wood of the tree, cherrywood, used in woodworking.


morello

May be connected to ἀμαυρός (amaurós, “dark, dim, faint”), compare Polish chmura (“dark cloud, darken”).

A variety of cultivated cherry, Prunus cerasus var. austera, having a dark skin


mirabelle plum

The sweet, edible drupaceous fruit of the mirabelle prune tree, a cultivar of the plum tree of the subspecies Prunus domestica subsp. syriaca, often used in pies, wines, and brandy


cherrywood

A hardwood obtained from the cherry tree, valued for use in furniture and other woodworking applications.


cherry laurel

Prunus sect. Laurocerasus
Prunus sect. Laurocerasus

An evergreen cherry in the section Prunus sect. Laurocerasus, some of which are cultivated as ornamentals.

Prunus caroliniana, native to the southeastern United States.


hagberry

From hag + berry.
According to Some Folklore of Trees, Animals, and River-fishing from the N.E. of Scotland, "The wood of the 'hackberry' or bird-cherry (Prunus padus) is not used as a staff or for any other purpose, as it is looked on as the witch's tree."

Prunus padus, a species of cherry native to northern Europe and northern Asia, the bird cherry.


mazzard

In California three rootstock species are in general use. From fairly reliable estimates, about 65 per cent of the cherries grown in the state are grafted on mazzard (Prunus avium); 30 per cent are on mahaleb (P. mahaleb); and 5 per cent on morello (P. cerasus).

1951, Leonard H. Day, Cherry rootstocks in California, Berkeley, Calif.: College of Agriculture, University of California, page 4:

A sweet cherry, Prunus avium, especially when used as rootstock.


bird cherry

On the verdant slope and down by the edge of the water, the bird-cherry and the mountain ash displayed their flowery garb of summer.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280:

Prunus padus or any deciduous species of Prunus subg. Padus that is closely related to it (tree or fruit).


sour cherry

Species of Prunus subg. Cerasus, (cherries), native to much of Europe and southwest Asia, especially, Prunus cerasus, Prunus pseudocerasus, and Prunus cerasoides.


groundcherry

long-leaved groundcherry (Physalis longifolia

Any of various plants in the genus Physalis and their fruits


plumcot

These fruits are in season now, along with the plumcot, 50 percent plum and 50 percent apricot, which has been sold on a limited basis until now.

2007 July 11, Florence Fabricant, “Food Stuff”, in New York Times:

He also sent us specimens of what he calls the "plumcot" — a cross between the plum and the apricot.

1898, Report/Maryland State Horticultural Society:


white-heart

A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.


blackheart

Blackheart malleable cast iron has excellent castability and machinability.

2013, V. B. Bhandari, Introduction to Machine Design, →ISBN, page 49:

A type of malleable cast iron with minimum tensile strength of 350 N/mm².


interspecific plum

en-noun

interspecific plum (plural interspecific plums)

A pluot or any of the other experimental or proprietary plum-apricot hybrid plants and their fruit.


peacotum

A blend of peach, apricot, and plum. A trademark.

A hybrid species of peach, apricot, and plum lineage.


umeboshi

From Japanese 梅干 (umeboshi, “dried plum”).


beach plum

A tree, Prunus maritima, bearing small plums, found along the US Atlantic coast from Maine to Maryland.


holly-leaved cherry

holly-leaved cherry (plural holly-leaved cherries)

Prunus ilicifolia
Prunus ilicifolia#Translingual

A species of cherry native to California, Prunus ilicifolia.


bullace

From Middle English bolas, bolace, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beloce, buloce (“sloe”), from Vulgar Latin *bullucea, from Late Latin bulluca (“kind of small fruit”); of Celtic/Gaulish origin, akin to Celtiberian *bullācā, from Proto-Celtic *bullākā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeHw- (“to swell, puff”), itself imitative. Possibly influenced by Latin galla (“oak apple”) with metathesis of the consonants.
See also Spanish bugalla (“oak apple”), Portuguese bugalho, and (the distantly related) Latin bucca.

onomatopoeic

imitative

If he ate bullace tart and bullace pie for a week, he would hardly empty the smallest of the baskets; and then they would begin to go bad. Nothing remained but to give them away, but to whom?

1930, Harold Webber Freeman, Down in the Valley, page 48:

A small European plum (Prunus interstitia, syn. Prunus domestica subsp. insititia).


cherry plum

Prunus cerasifera
Prunus cerasifera#Translingual

Prunus cerasifera, a deciduous ornamental Eurasian shrub or small tree, having white flowers and small red to yellow edible fruits.


capulin

From Spanish capulín, from Classical Nahuatl capolin.

The Mexican cherry (Prunus serotina subsp. capuli, once Prunus capollin) and Prunus capuli, that yields a sap used in native remedies and has edible cherries of which the kernels of the pits furnish a flour.

A tropical American tree (Trema micrantha), the bark of which yields a strong fiber

A groundcherry (any of most species of Physalis).

Muntingia calabura
Muntingia calabura#Translingual

A calabur tree (Muntingia calabura, sole species of Muntingia).


bigaroon

French bigarreau, from bigarré (“variegated”).


melocoton

Borrowed from Spanish melocotón (“peach tree and its fruit”), from Latin mālum cotōnium (“quince, or quince tree”, literally “apple of Cydonia”).


Chinese plum

Any of three species of East Asian trees and their fruit:

Eriobotrya japonica
Eriobotrya japonica#Translingual


Chinese cherry

en-noun

Chinese cherry (plural Chinese cherries)

Chinese flowering cherry (Prunus cyclamina)

Any of several species of genus Prunus:
Chinese plum-cherry (Prunus humilis)

Chinese sour cherry (Prunus pseudocerasus)

Any of several species of genus Prunus:
Chinese dwarf cherry (Prunus tomentosa)

Any of several species of genus Prunus:
Chinese bush cherry (Prunus tomentosa)


black cherry

black cherry (countable and uncountable, plural black cherries)


American wild plum

American wild plum (countable and uncountable, plural American wild plums)

Prunus americana, native to eastern North America.


damson plum

damson plum (countable and uncountable, plural damson plums)

A deciduous tree, Prunus insititia, native to Eurasia and related to the plum.

Syzygium cumini
Syzygium cumini#Translingual

Syzygium cumini, jambul, native to south Asia.

Chrysophyllum oliviforme, the satinleaf.


almander

From Middle English almander, almaunder, from Old French almandier, a modification of amandier. See almond.


flat peach

Flat peach of China—Cultivated more for the singularity of its form than for anything else. It is, however, well adapted for forcing in pots.

1855, Charles McIntosh, The Book of the Garden, volume 2, William Blackwood and Sons, page 508:

Prunus persica subsp. platycarpa#Translingual

A subspecies or variety of peach Prunus persica subsp. platycarpa, with white flesh and a flattish, round shape.


bitter almond

A tree of the species Prunus amygdalus (order Rosales).


Manchurian apricot

Manchurian apricot (plural Manchurian apricots)

Prunus mandshurica, a tree native to northeast China, Korea, and Manchuria, with white or pink flowers and edible yellowish fruit.


peach tree

Prunus persica, a fruit tree of the genus Prunus, that bears peaches.


apricot tree

A fruit tree which bears apricots; Prunus armeniaca.


California plum

California plum (plural California plums)


Sierra plum

A shrub or small tree native to northern California and southern Oregon, Prunus subcordata, sometimes grown for its edible fruit.


hogberry

Any of several plants or their berries, usually neglected by humans


hog plum

Any of several types of plants that produce plum-like fruit.

Certain species of Prunus, particularly Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum), Prunus rivularis (wild-goose plum), and Prunus umbellata (Allegheny plum).

Prunus angustifolia
Prunus angustifolia#Translingual


sand cherry

Prunus pumila, a North American cherry in the rose family, growing in sandy locations.


awara

Borrowed from Guyanese Creole English awara, from Lokono awara.

The food found in its stomach was the seed of the awarra, a species of palm (Aristocaryon spec?)

1841, Robert H[ermann] Schomburgk, “Banded Schizodon. Schizodon fasciatus, Agas.”, in William Jardine, editor, Fishes of Guiana. Part I (The Naturalist’s Library, Ichthyology; III), Edinburgh: W[illiam] H[ome] Lizars, […]; London: S. Highley, […], →OCLC, page 253:

The Ita palm supplies the drink called Belteerie; of the fruit of the Tooroo palm a drink resembling chocolate is made; the Awara palm also yields a drink; the Guava, Souari, and tamarind.

1857, J. O. Bagdon, “Vegetable Products”, in Guiana: Geographical and Historical. […], Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana: R. Short, →OCLC, pages 16–17:

Handsome bracelets and rings are carved out of the nut of the Awara palm (Astrocaryum Awara); it is black, very hard, and bears a high polish.

1871 September 1, “International Exhibition. The French Pictures.”, in The Art-Journal, volume X (New Series; volume XXXIII overall), London: Virtue & Co., →OCLC, page 220, column 1:

Oil of the awara palm. This palm is very common on the coast of French Guiana; the fruit grows to a fine bunch, and ripens and falls between February and April. It is one of the most useful of trees, for every particle of it is utilized.

1876 June, “France. Cayenne. Report by Consul Wooldridge on the Trade and Commerce of French Guiana for the Year 1875.”, in Reports from Her Majesty’s Consuls on the Manufactures, Commerce, &c., of Their Consular Districts. Part IV. […] (Accounts and Papers; 34 (Commercial Reports—continued)), volume LXXV, London: Harrison and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 850, column 1:

The five principal palms of the British Guiana rivers are the trooly, the aeta, the cocorite, the manicole, and the awarra, and all these grow in the greatest profusion on the banks of the Berbice.

1885, The Gardeners’ Magazine, volume XXVIII, London: Gardeners’ Magazine Office, →OCLC, page 642:

Above Ahwiemah, and upwards until the sandy ridges in the neighbourhood of Youacourie creek are met with, the district is almost a continuous swamp, in which the prickly awarra palms (Astrocaryum) luxuriate and in some places completely line the riverside.

1890 June, [J. J. Quelch], “On the Upper Berbice River”, in J. J. Quelch, editor, Timehri: Being the Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, volume IV (New Series), part I, Demerara: J. Thomson, […]; London: E[dward] Stanford, […], →OCLC, page 317:

An Amerindian informant living in the area stated that it fed on fruits of the Awarra Palm Astrocaryum tucumoides and the Cuyuru Palm A. tucuma.

1976 June 18, E. McLoughlin, P. J. K. Burton, “Notes on the Hawk-headed Parrot Deroptyus accipitrinus”, in J. F. Monk, editor, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, volume 96, number 2, London: British Ornithologists’ Club, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69:

At dawn the beautiful wife asked Bási Kodjó to go off to the forest with her to collect awara palm seeds. [...] Bási Kodjó climbed the awara tree and began picking fruit. Suddenly the woman turned back into her natural form, a Bush Cow, and called out to her relatives. [...] Bási Kodjó had turned himself into a tiny awara palm thorn and hidden by sticking himself into a leaf.

1991, Richard Price, Sally Price, “Introduction: Collective Fabulation”, in Two Evenings in Saramaka, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 18:

This owl nests mostly in cavities in trees. On 23 June 2006, a nest was discovered at Awala-Yalimapo [...]. The nest cavity was situated on top of a dead beheaded awara palm tree Astrocaryum vulgare. The palm tree with a height of c. 5 m and a diameter of c. 15 cm stood in the middle of a small group of bushes, low trees and awara palms next to the parking of the primary school.

2017, Olivier Claessens, Nyls de Pracontal, Johan Ingels, “The Owls of French Guiana”, in Paula L. Enríquez, editor, Neotropical Owls: Diversity and Conservation, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, page 426:

(Guyana, chiefly attributively) The palm tree Astrocaryum vulgare which is native to the Amazon Rainforest region.


peewah

Borrowed from Trinidadian Creole English peewa, peewah, from Spanish pijguao (Latin America), possibly from Quechua [Term?]. The English word is cognate with Spanish pifá, pivá (Panama), pijuayo (Peru).

The Pewa or Peach palm (Guilielma speciosa) was introduced from Trinidad, and seedlings raised for distribution. The fruits when boiled in water with salt are appreciated as a food.

1910, Department of Agriculture, Legislative Council, Trinidad and Tobago, [Council Paper], Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: Government Printer, →OCLC, page 16:

This Guilielma [the peach palm or pejibaye (Guilielma gasipaes)] is prized in Trinidad, as well as elsewhere, for its edible fruits; by the natives I have heard it called piliwa and piwa.

[1947 December 27, L[iberty] H[yde] Bailey, Indigenous Palms of Trinidad and Tobago (Gentes Herbarum: Occasional Papers on the Kinds of Plants), volume VII, fascicle IV, Ithaca, N.Y.: Bailey Hortorium of The New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, →OCLC, page 353:

Nonconventional sources with development potential include: [...] wild plants such as gru gru, pewa (peach nut), many weeds and, possibly, the seeds of seaside grapes, fat pork, etc.

1984, Jeffrey W. Dellimore, Judy A. Whitehead, Secondary Agrobased Industries: ECCM and Barbados (Caribbean Technology Policy Studies Project; 90), Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, →OCLC, page 79:

Bactris gasipaes
Bactris gasipaes#Translingual

A peach palm (Bactris gasipaes), a South American palm tree.


mahleb

From Arabic مَحْلَب (maḥlab, “mahaleb cherry”), from حَلَبَ (ḥalaba, “to milk”).

der

What makes them [(kahke)] unique is the fragrant mahleb (also spelled mahlab or mahaleb)—a spice ground from wild cherry kernels, with a flavor reminiscent of fresh cherries—elusive, but fruity and very pleasant.

2010, Richard Sax, Classic Home Desserts: A Treasury of Heirloom and Contemporary Recipes, page 287:

Prunus mahaleb
Prunus mahaleb#Translingual

A Middle Eastern spice derived from the pit of the mahaleb cherry (Prunus mahaleb)


mahaleb cherry

en-noun

mahaleb cherry (usually uncountable, plural mahaleb cherries)

A species of cherry, Prunus mahaleb, whose pits are used as a spice called mahleb


wild plum

Amelanchier (serviceberry), a genus in the Rosaceae producing small fruits lacking a pit.


alubukhara

Ultimately from Persian آلوی بخارا (âlu-ye boxârâ).

A cultivar of plum found in Turkestan, Iran and the South Caucasus, commonly eaten as a prune (dried plum).


wild almond

A tree of any of several species, similar in fruit to P. amygdalus

Prunus fasciculata, native to the southwestern United States


August plum

(botany) A wild plum tree of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh (Prunus americana).


creek plum

A shrub native to the central United States, Prunus rivularis, which produces bitter berries.


perfumed cherry

perfumed cherry (plural perfumed cherries)


duke cherry

Prunus × gondouinii, a hybrid between sweet cherry and sour cherry, generally disadvantageous in durability, yield and marketability.


agriot

From French aigrette, griotte, formerly Old French agriote (“sour cherry”). Compare aigre (“sour”).

Trenner Joseph sen. & jun., Turners and Makers of agriot pipe-sticks.

1862, Joseph Arenstein, Austria at the International Exhibition of 1862, page 45:

Comparing those plants grown in large and in samll vessels, the agriot yielded a larger amount of leaf and dry substance when grown in small vessels, whereas with the sweet cherry the reverse was the case. When grown in dilute solutions the agriot caused the evaporation through its leaves of twice as much water, and the sweet cherry under the same conditions of a third more water, than when the solutions were more concentrated.

1881, P. Sorauer, “Manuring Experiments on Fruit Trees”, in Journal of the Chemical Society, volume 40, page 936:

We distinguish between sweet cherries and sour cherries (agriots).

1916, Erich Walter, Manual for the Essence Industry, page 239:

On the other hand special note should be made of the cherries of Manisa, the agriots of Parsa and Gediz, and the cucumbers of Menemen.

1919, Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division, A Handbook of Asia Minor: Western Asia Minor, page 111:

Brandy distilled from fresh whole agriots or cherries, fermented with or without the stones.

1967, Food, Drug, Cosmetic Law Journal - Volume 22, page 531:


Yoshino cherry

Yoshino cherry (plural Yoshino cherries)

Prunus × yedoensis, a hybrid cherry tree from Japan.


sand plum

The North American tree Prunus angustifolia or its fruit.


Watson's plum

A variety of the Chickasaw plum, Prunus angustifolia var. watsonii.


wild-goose plum

wild-goose plum (plural wild-goose plums)

Any of various North American plum species:


Canada plum

A North American tree of species Prunus nigra or its fruit.


flatwoods plum

Prunus umbellata, a tree of the Southern US, or its fruit.


Allegheny plum

Prunus alleghenaniensis, a tree of eastern North America, especially Appalachia, or its fruit.