cherry tree - any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwoodcherry - fruit with a single hard stone genus Prunus, Prunus - a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions cherry - wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry Prunus avium, sweet cherry - large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation flowering cherry - any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Prunus cultivated for their showy white or pink single or double blossoms |