bird cherry

English

Prunus padus

Prunus ssiori

Prunus avium

Pronunciation

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Noun

bird cherry (plural bird cherries)

1. Prunus padus or any deciduous species of Prunus subg. Padus that is closely related to it (tree or fruit).
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, 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. Pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica)
3. (rare) Sweet cherry (Prunus avium).

Synonyms

• (Prunus padus): hackberry, hagberry, Mayday tree
• (Prunus pensylvanica): pin berry, fire cherry

Derived terms

• American bird cherry (Prunus serotina or Prunus pensylvanica)
• Asian bird cherry (Prunus padus var. commutata)
• bird-cherry ermine (“moth”)
• European bird cherry (Prunus padus var. padus)
• Himalayan bird cherry (Prunus cornuta)
• Hokkaido bird cherry (Prunus ssiori)
• Virginian bird cherry (Prunus virginiana)

Translations

Prunus padus

• Altai:

  Southern Altai: јодро (ǰodro), јымырыт (ǰïmïrït)

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

  Mandarin: 稠李 (zh) (chóulǐ), 臭李子 (chòulǐzi)

• Chuvash: ҫӗмӗрт (śĕmĕrt)
• Danish: hæg c [tree], almindelig hæg c [tree], majtræ n [tree], hæggebær n [fruit], hægebær n [fruit]
• Erzya: лёмзёркс (ľomźorks)
• Estonian: toomingas
• Evenki: инӈэктэмкӯрэ̄ (inŋəktəmkūrə̄) [tree], инӈэктэ (inŋəktə) [fruit]
• Faroese: heggur m [tree], heggtræ n [tree], heggrunnur m [tree], heggber [fruit]
• Finnish: tuomi (fi) [tree], metsätuomi [tree], tuomenmarja [fruit]
• French: merisier à grappes (fr) 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
• Italian: pado 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)
• Kaitag: ччурк (ččurk)
• Karachay-Balkar: къара къайын (qara qayın), къара мырзы (qara mırzı), жымыртхы (jımırtxı)
• Kazakh: мойыл (moiyl)
• Ket: бальн, хи [fruit]
• Khakas: нымырт (nımırt)
• Korean: 귀룽나무 (gwirungnamu)
• Latgalian: īva f
• Latvian: ieva f
• Lithuanian: ieva f
• Macedonian: сре́мза f (srémza)
• Manchu: ᠶᡝᠩᡤᡝ (yengge)
• Mansi:

  Northern Mansi: ля̄м (lâ̄m)

• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: ломбо (lombo)

  Western Mari: ломбы (lomby)

• Moksha: лайме (lajme)
• Mongolian: мойл (mn) (mojl)
• Nivkh: кып (kəp), кап (kap)
• 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 [tree], mălină (ro) f [fruit]
• Romansh: alaussa f
• Russian: черёмуха (ru) f (čerjómuxa)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: ávža, duopma

• 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

• Swedish: hägg (sv) c
• Tatar: şomırt
• Turkish: kuş kirazı, ılgıncar (tr)
• Tuvan: чодураа (çoduraa)
• Udihe: иӈофо (iŋofo), чуʼаи (ču’ai)
• Ukrainian: чере́мха (uk) f (čerémxa)
• Uzbek: shumurt (uz)
• Volapük: padudabim [tree], padudep [tree], padud [fruit]
• Welsh: ceiriosen yr aderyn f, rhuddwernen f, llyngwren f
• Yakut: хаппырыас (qappïrïas), харас (qaras)

Prunus avium — see sweet cherry