black cherry

/blæk ˌtʃɛri/
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Other forms: black cherries

Definitions of black cherry
  1. noun
    large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruit
    synonyms: Prunus serotina, black cherry tree, rum cherry
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    type of:
    wild cherry, wild cherry tree
    an uncultivated cherry tree
  2. noun
    any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh
    synonyms: sweet cherry
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    types:
    bing cherry
    dark red or blackish sweet cherry
    heart cherry, oxheart, oxheart cherry
    large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh
    blackheart, blackheart cherry
    heart cherry with dark flesh and skin cherry
    type of:
    cherry
    a red fruit with a single hard stone
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