sand cherry

1. 1.

   small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit

   SynonymsPrunus pumilaPrunus pumilla susquehanaePrunus susquehanaePrunus cuneata

   Broadershrub

   Part ofPrunus

Questions about sand cherry

What does sand cherry mean?

sand cherry means "small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit".

What is another word for sand cherry?

Close synonyms include Prunus pumila, Prunus pumilla susquehanae, Prunus susquehanae, Prunus cuneata. 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 sand cherry a common word?

sand cherry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.