black cherry

Questions about black cherry

What does black cherry mean?

black cherry means "large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for black cherry?

Close synonyms include black cherry tree, rum cherry, Prunus serotina, sweet cherry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black cherry a common word?

black cherry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.