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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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
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
Black currant and black cherry fruit combine with a warm-climate ripeness in this satisfying red.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 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
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