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ˈred-heart
1. A cherry belonging to a variety bearing heart-shaped fruit with red flesh; also, the fruit of a tree of this kind. Also attrib.
[1664J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 68 June..Cherries,..Heart, Black, Red, White.] 1707[see black heart s.v. black a. 19]. 1764Edwards Gleanings II. iii. 346 Index, The Red-heart Cherry. 1833H. Barnard Let. 25 May in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1918) XIII. 377 Here were..numerous trees of ripe cherries, black hearts and red hearts. 1887Harper's Mag. Dec. 31/1 Under the largest of two red-heart cherry-trees sat a girl shelling pease. 1904E. Glasgow Deliverance 238, I used to cut round old Fletcher's pasture..to keep from passin' by his red-heart cherry-tree.
2. One of several trees with reddish bark or wood, esp. the western North American Ceanothus spinosus, an evergreen shrub or small tree belonging to the family Rhamnaceæ and bearing clusters of blue or white flowers.
1926J. Masefield Odtaa xiv. 231 He saw a footmark in some soft earth close to a red-heart. 1937Range Plant Handbk. (Forest Service, U.S. Dept. Agric.) b39 The branches of a number of species [of Ceanothus], such as..redheart, or spiny myrtle (C. spinosus), end in spines. 1951W. L. Jepson Flowering Plants Calif. 620 Red-heart. Straggling shrub 5 to 10 ft. high, or forming a small tree up to 24 ft. 1965Austral. Encycl. V. 225/2 Dissiliaria baloghioides (hauer or redheart). 1973G. M. Chippendale Eucalypts W. Austral. Goldfields 93/1 Redheart [sc. Eucalyptus decipiens] is a spreading, twisted, gnarled tree. 1973Stand. Encycl. S. Afr. IX. 266/1 Red-heart..(Acacia nilotica = A. benthami) Thorn-tree with a spreading rounded canopy. |