Lexic.us

Definition of Black cherry tree

1. Noun. Large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruit.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Cherry Tree

Literary usage of Black cherry tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collections for an Essay Towards a Materia Medica of the United States by Benjamin Smith Barton (1900)
"... planting the stones in a mixture of beach sand and loam, and will produce fruit in two or three years. The black cherry tree. It is common, grows large, ..."

2. The Timber-tree Improved, Or, The Best Practical Methods of Improving by William Ellis (1744)
"And like- wife the Black Cherry-tree, by the Farmers in this Country, is deemed to do the leaft Harm in a Hedge of any Fruit-tree; ..."

3. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"Drupe black, of the size of a large pea, a little succulent, and very indifferent to the taste; ripe in July. At 13. C. PH'CRA Luis. The black Cherry Tree. ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1919)
"He said, " Why, yes, a black cherry tree." I suppose a cherry is a cherry whether it is black or red. After he said that I remembered it well. ..."

5. Collections for an Essay Towards a Materia Medica of the United States by Benjamin Smith Barton (1900)
"... planting the stones in a mixture of beach sand and loam, and will produce fruit in two or three years. The black cherry tree. It is common, grows large, ..."

6. The Timber-tree Improved, Or, The Best Practical Methods of Improving by William Ellis (1744)
"And like- wife the Black Cherry-tree, by the Farmers in this Country, is deemed to do the leaft Harm in a Hedge of any Fruit-tree; ..."

7. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"Drupe black, of the size of a large pea, a little succulent, and very indifferent to the taste; ripe in July. At 13. C. PH'CRA Luis. The black Cherry Tree. ..."

8. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1919)
"He said, " Why, yes, a black cherry tree." I suppose a cherry is a cherry whether it is black or red. After he said that I remembered it well. ..."

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