The difference between Bird cherry and Hag

When used as nouns, bird cherry means a cherry tree, prunus padus, native to the northern eurasia, whereas hag means a witch, sorceress, or enchantress.


Hag is also verb with the meaning: to harass.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bird cherry and Hag

  1. Bird cherry as a noun:

    A cherry tree, Prunus padus, native to the northern Eurasia.

  2. Bird cherry as a noun:

    Any of several of the species of cherry trees sometimes grouped in the subgenus or section Prunus sect. Laurocerasus of Prunus subg. Cerasus (), of eastern Asia () (), of Japan (), of eastern Asia ()

  3. Bird cherry as a noun:

    A berry (fruit) produced by these trees.

  4. Bird cherry as a noun (rare):

    sweet cherry, Prunus avium

  1. Hag as a noun:

    A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.

  2. Hag as a noun (pejorative):

    An ugly old woman.

  3. Hag as a noun:

    A fury; a she-monster.

  4. Hag as a noun:

    A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.

  5. Hag as a noun:

    A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.

  6. Hag as a noun (obsolete):

    An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.

  7. Hag as a noun:

    The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.

  8. Hag as a noun (slang):

    sleep paralysis

  1. Hag as a noun:

    A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.

  2. Hag as a noun:

    A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.

  1. Hag as a verb (transitive):

    To harass; to weary with vexation.