bird cherry

English

Prunus padus

Prunus ssiori

Prunus avium

Wikispecies

Noun

bird cherry (plural bird cherries)

1. A cherry tree, Prunus padus, native to northern Eurasia.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280:

     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.

2. Any of several species of cherry trees sometimes grouped in the subgenus Prunus subg. Padus or section Prunus sect. Laurocerasus of Prunus subg. Cerasus.
   1. Prunus buergeriana (Japanese bird cherry), of eastern Asia.
   2. Prunus cornuta (Himalayan bird cherry).
   3. Prunus grayana (Gray's bird cherry), of Japan.
   4. Prunus padus var. commutata (Asian bird cherry), of eastern Asia.
   5. Prunus pensylvanica of North America (vernacular names: fire cherry, pin cherry, and red cherry).
   6. Prunus ssiori (Hokkaido bird cherry).
3. A berry (fruit) produced by these trees.
4. (rare) Sweet cherry, Prunus avium.

Synonyms

• (Prunus padus): hackberry, hagberry, Mayday tree

Derived terms

• European bird cherry (Prunus padus var. padus)
• Asian bird cherry (Prunus padus var. commutata)

Translations

Prunus padus

• Bashkir: муйыл (muyıl)
• Basque: otsagereziondo
• Belarusian: чаро́мха f (čarómxa)
• Bulgarian: песеки́ня f (pesekínja)
• Catalan: gatzerí m, cirerer bord m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 稠李 (zh) (chóuli)

• Chuvash: ҫӗмӗрт (śĕmĕrt)
• Danish: hæg c, almindelig hæg c, majtræ n
• Erzya: лёмзёркс (ľomźorks)
• Estonian: toomingas
• Evenki: инӈэктэмкӯрэ̄ (inŋəktəmkūrə̄)
• Faroese: heggur m, heggtræ n, heggrunnur m
• Finnish: tuomi (fi), metsätuomi
• French: merisier à grappes m
• Galician: gregoriño m, pau de san gregorio m, acereiro dos danados m
• German: Traubenkirsche f, Ahlkirsche f, Elsenkirsche f, Sumpfkirsche f, Faulkirsche f
• Hungarian: zelnicemeggy (hu), zselnicemeggy (hu)
• Icelandic: heggur m, heggviður m
• Irish: donnroisc m
• Japanese: エゾノウワミズザクラ (ezo no uwamizuzakura), 蝦夷の上溝桜 (えぞのうわみずざくら, ezo no uwamizuzakura)
• Karachay-Balkar: къара къайын (qara qayın), къара мырзы (qara mırzı), жымыртхы (jımırtxı)
• Kazakh: мойыл (moiyl)
• Ket: бальн
• Khakas: нымырт (nımırt)
• Korean: 귀룽나무 (gwirungnamu)
• Latgalian: īva f
• Latvian: ieva f
• Lithuanian: ieva f
• Macedonian: сре́мза f (srémza)
• Manchu: ᠶᡝᠩᡤᡝ (yengge)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: ломбо (lombo)

  Western Mari: ломбы (lomby)

• Moksha: лайме (lajme)
• Mongolian: мойл (mn) (mojl)
• Nivkh: кып (kəp), кап (kap)
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} ля̄м (lâ̄m)
• Northern Sami: ávža, duopma
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hegg m

  Nynorsk: hegg m

• Old Norse: heggr m
• Orok: синэктэ (sinəktə)
• Ossetian: къӕбырттӕг (k’æbyrttæg)
• Polish: czeremcha (pl) f
• Portuguese: azereiro-dos-danados m
• Romanian: mălin (ro) m
• Romansch: alaussa f
• Russian: черёмуха (ru) f (čerjómuxa)
• Scottish Gaelic: fiodhag f, glocan m
• Serbo-Croatian: sremza (sh) f
• Shor: ныбырт
• Slovak: čremcha f
• Slovene: čremsa f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: kitkata wišnja f

• Southern Altai: јодро (ǰodro), јымырт (ǰïmïrt)
• Swedish: hägg (sv) c
• Tatar: şomırt
• Tuvan: чодураа (çoduraa)
• Udihe: иӈофо (iŋofo), чуʼаи (ču’ai)
• Ukrainian: чере́мха (uk) f (čerémxa)
• Uzbek: shumurt (uz)
• Volapük: padudabim, padudep
• Welsh: ceiriosen yr aderyn f, rhuddwernen f, llyngwren f
• Yakut: хаппырыас (qappırıas), харас (qaras)

tree of subgenus Prunus subg. padus

• Finnish: tuomi (fi)

berry

• Bashkir: муйыл (muyıl), муйыл емеше (muyıl yemeşe)
• Danish: hæggebær n, hægebær n
• Evenki: инӈэктэ (inŋəktə)
• Faroese: heggber
• Finnish: tuomenmarja
• Ket: хи
• Romanian: mălină (ro) f
• Russian: черёмуха (ru) f (čerjómuxa)
• Southern Altai: јодро (ǰodro)
• Volapük: padud

Prunus avium — see sweet cherry