Gean

Word GEAN
Character 4
Hyphenation gean
Pronunciations /ɡiːn/

Definitions and meanings of "Gean"

What do we mean by gean?

A wild cherry tree, Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia or its small, dark fruit.

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The word "gean" in example sentences

The small cherry, both black and red, common in gardens, is in Scotland, never in England, termed gean (Fr. guigne), from Guigne, in Picardy. ❋ Ramsay, Edward B (1874)

The double gean is one of the latest cherries and, being double, it hangs on to its flowers longer than most. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Elm, ash, gean, the wild cherry, and the rare native large-leaved lime, Tilia platyphyllos, also grow in these woods, and stripes of alder wood follow the swampy seepage from springs and wells higher up. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

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. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

This gean should never be introduced to wild populations, recessiv or not. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rain was beating on the open leaf of plane and beech, and rapping at the black doors of the ash-bud, and the scent of the gean-tree flourish hung round the road by the river, vague, sweet, haunting, like a recollection of the magic and forgotten gardens of youth. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

It filled the wood of Kincreggan with sounds, with the rasping and creaking of branches and the rustle of leaves, and the road by the river under the gean-trees was strewn with the broken blossom. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

A little wood I know has in May among its oaks and beeches many white pillars of gean trees, each with its own air round it. ❋ Unknown (1917)

[978] Dr.A. Philippson, The Greek Islands of the A.gean, _Scottish ❋ Ellen Churchill Semple (1897)

[957] Dr.A. Philippson, The Greek Islands of the A.gean, _Scottish ❋ Ellen Churchill Semple (1897)

[994] Dr.A. Philippson, The Greek Islands of the A.gean, _Scottish ❋ Ellen Churchill Semple (1897)

Just in the dusk of the great oak-tree, where its branches mingle with those of the gean [wild cherry], he was met by the slim, lithe figure of Jess ❋ Unknown (1887)

The gean isle occupied by Mr. Phoebus was of no inconsiderable dimensions. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

Phoebus, in his steam-yacht Pan, of considerable admeasurement, and fitted up with every luxury and convenience that science and experience could suggest, was on his way to an island which he occasionally inhabited, near the Asian coast of the gean Sea, and which he rented from the chief of his wife's house, the Prince of Samos. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

The first, the gean-tree (_Cerasus sylvestris_), called by the peasants in Suffolk and Cheshire, ❋ Various (1841)

The fruit of the gean-tree is rather harsh till fully ripe, and then becomes somewhat vapid and watery, yet it is very grateful to the palate after ❋ Various (1841)

Pyrenees, * and sometimes, as in the main land of Greece, and in the insular groups in the gean Sea, through the intermediate layers of gneiss or mica slate. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)

Fresh ins loch vo da hähna es gibt koa schenas du woast wos is moan hey da zoi i gean an zehna füa oa loch vielleicht a füar 3 gibts an rabatt is des gail yo do zünd in glei nei mein zipfe ind ritze na es is a loch und die hehn sogt ga ga gag moant na ❋ Unknown (2010)

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