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Noun: sand cherry
  1. Small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit
    - Prunus pumila, Prunus pumilla susquehanae, Prunus susquehanae, Prunus cuneata

Derived forms: sand cherries

Type of: bush, shrub

Part of: genus Prunus, Prunus

Encyclopedia: Sand cherry