Definition of "oxheart" [ox•heart]

• A variety of cultivated cherry having sweet juicy fruit. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Others have an "oxheart" shape, tapered at the end, like Hungarian Heart."
• "For that's what those paintings formed, the central panel a riotous garden scene with an oxheart vine in the foreground, serpentine and heavy with fruit, flanked by two smaller panels of growth and decay."
• "Rory studied the enormous beefsteak, the delicate cherry, the fiendishly succulent, dark tomato she called her Black Prince; the meaty oxheart, his own favourite."