cherry vs Prunus avium

Prunus avium vs cherry

cherry and Prunus avium both are nouns.

cherry is an adjective but Prunus avium is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cherry	Yes	Yes	No	No
Prunus avium	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Prunus avium is a hyponym of cherry; that is, Prunus avium is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cherry:

cherry: any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
Prunus avium: large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation

Other hyponyms of cherry include wild cherry, wild cherry tree, sweet cherry, capulin, capulin tree, Prunus capuli, Prunus cerasus, sour cherry, sour cherry tree, Catalina cherry, Prunus lyonii, flowering cherry, chokecherry, chokecherry tree, Prunus virginiana.

cherry (noun)	Prunus avium (noun)
a red the color of ripe cherries	large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation
a red fruit with a single hard stone
any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry

cherry (adjective)	Prunus avium (adjective)
of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Difference between cherry and Prunus avium

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