gean, mazzard, mazzard cherry
(noun) wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Gean (plural Geans)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Gean is the 21790th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1193 individuals. Gean is most common among White (71.67%) and Black/African American (15.0%) individuals.
• Ange, Egan, Gena, agen, gena, nega-
gean (plural geans)
(now dialectal) A wild cherry tree, Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia or its small, dark fruit.
• Ange, Egan, Gena, agen, gena, nega-
Source: Wiktionary
Gean, n. Etym: [F. guigne the fruit of the gean; cf. OHG. wihsila, G. weichsel.] (Bot.)
Definition: A species of cherry tree common in Europe (Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
