Lexic.us

Definition of Sand cherry

1. Noun. Small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sand Cherry

Literary usage of Sand cherry

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

1. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society (1899)
"There are hundreds of others of almost equal excellence. The sand cherry is another western fruit, well known in the northwestern fourth of the state as the ..."

2. Bush-fruits: A Horticultural Monograph of Raspberries, Blackberries by Fred Wallace Card (1898)
"THE sand cherry I cannot bring myself to close this discussion of miscellaneous bush fruits without a brief mention of the western sand cherry, although its ..."

3. Bush-fruits: A Horticultural Monograph of Raspberries, Blackberries by Fred Wallace Card (1898)
"THE sand cherry I cannot bring myself to close this discussion of miscellaneous bush fruits without a brief mention of the western sand cherry, although its ..."

4. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"... but upon a concave receptacle. The calyx grows up around this concave end of the flower, and the F1G. 143. Sand-cherry in fruit. After Bailey. Bull. ..."

5. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1905)
"Reed: I would like to learn a little more about the sand cherry. ... I am not recommending the sand cherry for Minnesota conditions. ..."

6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"WESTERN sand cherry. Figs. 3231,3232. Known from P. pumila by its more prostrate ... This is the sand cherry of the Plains and the W., ranging from Kans. ..."

7. An Encyclopaedia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"280. ; sand cherry, Amer. Engraving. OUT Jig. 45u. from living plant in ... In America it is called the sand cherry, and said to be distinguished at sight ..."

8. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society (1899)
"There are hundreds of others of almost equal excellence. The sand cherry is another western fruit, well known in the northwestern fourth of the state as the ..."

9. Bush-fruits: A Horticultural Monograph of Raspberries, Blackberries by Fred Wallace Card (1898)
"THE sand cherry I cannot bring myself to close this discussion of miscellaneous bush fruits without a brief mention of the western sand cherry, although its ..."

10. Bush-fruits: A Horticultural Monograph of Raspberries, Blackberries by Fred Wallace Card (1898)
"THE sand cherry I cannot bring myself to close this discussion of miscellaneous bush fruits without a brief mention of the western sand cherry, although its ..."

11. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"... but upon a concave receptacle. The calyx grows up around this concave end of the flower, and the F1G. 143. Sand-cherry in fruit. After Bailey. Bull. ..."

12. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1905)
"Reed: I would like to learn a little more about the sand cherry. ... I am not recommending the sand cherry for Minnesota conditions. ..."

13. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"WESTERN sand cherry. Figs. 3231,3232. Known from P. pumila by its more prostrate ... This is the sand cherry of the Plains and the W., ranging from Kans. ..."

14. An Encyclopaedia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"280. ; sand cherry, Amer. Engraving. OUT Jig. 45u. from living plant in ... In America it is called the sand cherry, and said to be distinguished at sight ..."

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