Definition of "gean" [gean]

• A wild cherry, Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia. (noun)

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• "The small cherry, both black and red, common in gardens, is in Scotland, never in England, termed gean (Fr. guigne), from Guigne, in Picardy."
• "The double gean is one of the latest cherries and, being double, it hangs on to its flowers longer than most."
• "Hoisting myself into the forest, I saw everything in crayon colours: a bright-blue British Legion hut, orange bracken, bright-red leaves of gean in the woods, the black shadows of yew."