gean

plural geans

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

   ‘Given the circumstances, Effie,’ he whispered, ‘I could blossom again like a gean-tree.’

   1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 45

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   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.

   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

plural Geans

1. A surname.