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Morello

noun

Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice. Synonym: Prunus cerasus austera.

Cultivated sour cherry with dark-colored skin and juice.

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"Morello" Quotes from Famous Books

... &c.).—Botanists believe that our cultivated cherries are descended from one, two, four, or even more wild stocks.[692] That there must be at least two parent-species we may infer from the sterility of twenty hybrids raised by Mr. Knight from the morello fertilized by pollen of the Elton cherry; for these hybrids produced in all only five cherries, and one alone of these contained a seed.[693] Mr. Thompson[694] has classified the varieties in an apparently natural method in two main groups ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin

... heaven, but I sit here. The sudden blood of these men! at a word— Praise them, it boils, or blame them, it boils too. I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either. Somebody remarks Morello's outline there is wrongly traced, His hue mistaken; what of that? or else, Rightly traced and well ordered; what of that? Speak as they please, what does the mountain care? Ah, but a man's reach should ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various

Words linked to "Morello" : Prunus cerasus, Prunus cerasus austera, kirsch, sour cherry tree, sour cherry