| black cherry n. 1. a. A deciduous North American tree (Prunus serotina) having drooping elongate clusters of white flowers and blackish, somewhat poisonous fruits. b. The close-grained, reddish-brown wood of this tree, used especially for furniture, cabinets, and musical instruments. 2. Any of various dark-fruited kinds of cherry. |
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| Noun | 1. |  black cherry - large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruitwild cherry tree, wild cherry - an uncultivated cherry tree |
| 2. | black cherry - any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh cherry - a red fruit with a single hard stone bing cherry - dark red or blackish sweet cherry Prunus avium, sweet cherry - large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation |
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