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Gean

Gean \Gean\, n. [F. guigne the fruit of the gean; cf. OHG. w[=i]hsila, G. weichsel.] (Bot.) A species of cherry tree common in Europe ( Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color.

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gean

n. (context now dialectal English) A wild cherry tree, ''Prunus avium'', native to Europe and western Asia or its small, dark fruit.

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gean

n. wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting [syn: mazzard, mazzard cherry]

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There was also a square of green for bleaching clothes, a gean tree, a plot of gillyflowers and monkshood, and another of precious herbs like clary, penny-royal, and marjoram.