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SAND CHERRY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit
Synonyms:
Prunus cuneata; Prunus pumila; Prunus pumilla susquehanae; Prunus susquehanae; sand cherry
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sand cherry" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("sand cherry" is a member of...):
genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)