The difference between Bird cherry and Hagberry
When used as nouns, bird cherry means a cherry tree, prunus padus, native to the northern eurasia, whereas hagberry means prunus padus, a species of cherry native to northern europe and northern asia, the bird cherry.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bird cherry and Hagberry
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Bird cherry as a noun:
A cherry tree, Prunus padus, native to the northern Eurasia.
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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 ()
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Bird cherry as a noun:
A berry (fruit) produced by these trees.
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Bird cherry as a noun (rare):
sweet cherry, Prunus avium
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Hagberry as a noun:
Prunus padus, a species of cherry native to northern Europe and northern Asia, the bird cherry.
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Hagberry as a noun:
Its bittersweet astringent fruit, readily eaten by birds and Russians.