black cherry
Americannoun
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a North American cherry, Prunus serotina, having drooping clusters of fragrant white flowers and bearing a black, sour, edible fruit.
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the fruit itself.
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the hard, reddish-brown wood of this tree, used for making furniture.
Etymology
Origin of black cherry
An Americanism dating back to 1720–30
Example Sentences
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My black cherry love came full circle a few weeks ago when I had the most superb Amarena cherries alongside a chicken liver mousse.
From Salon ● May 6, 2025
A coffee named Sundays at Toro, grown in Santa Barbara County by Chris and Kristina McCausland, is a Pacas variety with tasting notes of black cherry, passion fruit, cacao and Port wine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
The bear was well known in the area and named after a variety of black cherry that she was particularly fond of.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023
The wine is firm yet not overly tannic, chock full of berry and black cherry flavors with noticeable oak influence from nine months in American and French barrels.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2021
This was no wilderness, but manicured groves of red-fringed switchgrass, buckthorn, elm, and black cherry, carefully tended to give the illusion of a wild space.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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