black cherry

American  

noun

1. a North American cherry, Prunus serotina, having drooping clusters of fragrant white flowers and bearing a black, sour, edible fruit.

2. the fruit itself.

3. the hard, reddish-brown wood of this tree, used for making furniture.

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Etymology

Origin of black cherry

An Americanism dating back to 1720–30

Example Sentences

Twig's also makes its own-name range of fruit sodas, from root beer to black cherry, and orange to lime.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

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

Choose from an array of colorful flavors, including black cherry, juicy peach, key lime and strawberry.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2022

Meadowcroft makes a delicious introduction, bursting with black cherry, pomegranate and woodspice, and a sensation of a cool night by a lake high in the mountains.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2022

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