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Definition of Black cherry

1. Noun. Large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruit.

2. Noun. Any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Cherry

black caiman black cake black calla black caraway black card black cardamom black cards black carpet beetle black carpet beetles black cat

black cataract black catechu black chamber black chanterelle black chanterelles black cherry (current term) black cherry tree black coal black coals black cock

black cocks black coffee black coffees black cohosh black comedy black coral black cottonwood black currant black cypress pine

Literary usage of Black cherry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"Fig. 96. WILD black cherry. Trunk O luches in diameter. Fig. 07. WILD «LACK CHERRY. Trunk 18 inches in diameter. ..."

2. A Year Among the Trees: Or, The Woods and By-ways of New England by Wilson Flagg (1881)
"THE black cherry. The black cherry, which is a tree of the first magnitude in favorable regions, is only a middle-sized tree in the New England States. ..."

3. Trees and Tree-planting by James Sanks Brisbin (1888)
"Its Qualities Contrasted with the black cherry. ... WILD black cherry. THIS tree is found all over the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. ..."

4. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"As a shade and ornamental tree the black cherry is charmingly unconventional. It is somewhat wayward in habit and sparse in foliage, but it carries neither ..."

5. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"Fig. 96. WILD black cherry. Trunk O luches in diameter. Fig. 07. WILD «LACK CHERRY. Trunk 18 inches in diameter. ..."

6. A Year Among the Trees: Or, The Woods and By-ways of New England by Wilson Flagg (1881)
"THE black cherry. The black cherry, which is a tree of the first magnitude in favorable regions, is only a middle-sized tree in the New England States. ..."

7. Trees and Tree-planting by James Sanks Brisbin (1888)
"Its Qualities Contrasted with the black cherry. ... WILD black cherry. THIS tree is found all over the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. ..."

8. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"As a shade and ornamental tree the black cherry is charmingly unconventional. It is somewhat wayward in habit and sparse in foliage, but it carries neither ..."

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