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

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

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

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2022

In her bathroom at home in Los Angeles, looking sick and exhausted but still old-Hollywood glamorous in a turban and a leopard-print dress, Blair begins to put on lipstick the color of a black cherry.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 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