gean
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Etymology
From Middle French guine (modern French guigne).
Pronunciation
Noun
gean (plural geans)
- (now dialectal) A wild cherry tree, Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia or its small, dark fruit.
- 1947 [1939], Ernst Jünger, translated by Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs, New Directions, translation of Auf den Marmorklippen (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:
- Thus in the early year the blue pearl clusters of the grape hyacinth bloomed, and in autumn the geans rejoiced us with the red Chinese lantern gleam of their fruit.
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 45:
- ‘Given the circumstances, Effie,’ he whispered, ‘I could blossom again like a gean-tree.’
Translations
wild cherry — see wild cherry
Further reading
Prunus avium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “gean”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “gean”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
Alternative forms
Noun
gean n
Derived terms
- geanãm
Noun
gean
Adjective
gean
- accusative singular of gea
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