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A kind of small black cherry.

A kind of wild red cherry.

Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.

A kind of cherry. See Morello. Great morel, the deadly nightshade. -- Petty morel, the black nightshade. See Nightshade.

A kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, -- used chiefly for preserving.

e fruit of the Nuttallia cerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and California, belonging to the Cherry tribe of Rosaceæ.

A large heart-shaped cherry, either black, red, or white.

Having, or arranged in, five vertical ranks, as the leaves of an apple tree or a cherry tree.

ree, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; -- said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach.

A bitter white crystalline glucoside extracted from the root bark of the apple, pear, cherry, plum, etc. [Formerly also written phloridzin.]

The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.

bercles, and with oblique white stripes on the sides, feeds on the oak, chestnut, willow, cherry, apple, and other trees. It produces a large amount of strong silk. Called also American silkworm.

rge American bombycid moth (Callosamia promethea). Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.

To grow; to increase. [Obs.] Black cherry trees prosper even to considerable timber. Evelyn.

; fleshy; succulent; as, the pulpy covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or a cherry.

with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry. Compound raceme, one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes.

rays. In the wood of the oak they are much larger than in that of the beech, maple, pine, cherry, etc. -- Silver grebe (Zoöl.), the red-throated diver. See Illust. under Diver. -- Silver hake (Zoöl.), the American whiting. -- Silver leaf, leaves or sheets made of silver beaten very thin. -- Silver lunge (Zoöl.), th…

f which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.

r leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.

The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.