Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dwarf cherry, Prunus pumila.
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Examples
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Growing in the sand along our eastern coast as far south as New Jersey and sometimes on the shores of the Great Lakes, the sand-cherry is found.
On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Lina Beard 1888
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Near the end of May, the sand-cherry, (Cerasus pumila,) adorned the sides of the path with its delicate flowers arranged in umbels cylindrically about its short stems, which last, in the fall, weighed down with good sized and handsome cherries, fell over in wreaths like rays on every side.
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In my front yard grew the strawberry, blackberry, and life-everlasting, johnswort and golden-rod, shrub-oaks and sand-cherry, blueberry and ground-nut.
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