WordNet
sand cherry
n. small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit [syn: Prunus pumila, Prunus pumilla susquehanae, Prunus susquehanae, Prunus cuneata]
Usage examples of "sand cherry".
I have watered the red huckleberry, the sand cherry and the nettle-tree, the red pine and the black ash, the white grape and the yellow violet, which might have withered else in dry seasons.
In my front yard grew the strawberry, blackberry, and life-everlasting, johnswort and goldenrod, shrub oaks and sand cherry, blueberry and groundnut.