Usage examples (23)

• The small cherry, both black and red, common in gardens, is in Scotland, never in England, termed gean (Fr. guigne), from Guigne, in Picardy.
• This gean should never be introduced to wild populations, recessiv or not.
• The double gean is one of the latest cherries and, being double, it hangs on to its flowers longer than most.
• 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...