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blacksherry

blacksherry noun: synonym of blackaroon.

Noun

blacksherry (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural) Synonym of blackaroon.
    • The chestnut was chestan (O. Fr. chastaigne); the wild cherry, gean or guin (Fr. guigne), a word still in use, and the name of which may be derived from Guienne, notwithstanding a notion prevailing in the north that the blackaroon, or blacksherry, was originally brought from Guines, in Artois.1882, Francisque Michel, A Critical Inquiry Into the Scottish Language with the View of Illustrating the Rise and Progress of Civilisation in Scotland, page 61
    Synonyms:
    blackaroon

Synonyms of blacksherry

Questions about blacksherry

What does blacksherry mean?
Blacksherry means synonym of blackaroon.
What part of speech is blacksherry?
Blacksherry is a noun.

Words near blacksherry in the dictionary

  1. blackseed
  2. blackseeds
  3. Blackshear
  4. Blackshears
  5. Blacksher
  6. blacksherry
  7. Blackshers
  8. Blackshire
  9. Blackshires
  10. blackshirt
  11. blackshirted

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