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Bird cherry   Listen
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Bird cherry  n.  (Bot.) A shrub (Prunus Padus) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries.






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"Bird cherry" Quotes from Famous Books



... bubbling, and gurgling, so clear that you could not tell where the water ended and the air began; and ran away under the road, a stream large enough to turn a mill; among blue geranium, and golden globeflower, and wild raspberry, and the bird cherry with its tassels of snow. [Footnote: These are English flowers, but you probably know some of them. The wild geranium, for instance, with its pinkish-purple flowers, is common in our woods. The globeflower is of rather a pale yellow, and its petals ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester

... long till I has this bird cherry ripe. He'll take a-holt awful strong right at the end of a stiff mile. One day I turns him loose, fur three-eighths, 'n' he runs it so ...
— Blister Jones • John Taintor Foote



Words linked to "Bird cherry" :   wild cherry, wild cherry tree, hagberry tree, Prunus padus, bird cherry tree, common bird cherry, pin cherry



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