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blackheart
[ blak-hahrt ]
noun
- Plant Pathology. a nonparasitic disease of plants, as of potatoes and various trees, in which internal plant tissues blacken, usually as a result of extremes in temperature.
- Horticulture.
- a heart cherry having a dark skin.
- the tree bearing this fruit.
blackheart
/ ˈæˌɑː /
noun
- an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
- any of various diseases of plants, such as the potato, in which the central tissues are blackened
- a variety of cherry that has large sweet fruit with purplish flesh and an almost black skin
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"But you don't mean it, do you?" she said, lifting to him her face that was round and glossy like a blackheart cherry.
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She tended with care her little garden, whose chief ornament was a fine cherry tree bearing luscious blackhearts, while her fellow-townsmen had only sour Morellos growing in their yards.
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“Well,” chuckled the old man over the ancient joke, “he’s the colour of a blackheart cherry.”
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Tell her to set out her best cake and that basket of blackhearts.”
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Said Tom, ‘I do not know; But I can take you to a tree where blackheart cherries grow.’
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