red-heartn.
/ˈrɛd hɑːt/, U.S. /ˈrɛd ˈhɑrt/ 1. A heart-shaped variety of cherry, typically with red skin and flesh (more fully red-heart cherry); the tree bearing this fruit (also red-heart cherry tree). Cf. black heart n., white-heart n. 1. Now rare or historical.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > cherry > types of
black cherry1530
geana1533
Plinian1577
cherrylet1605
agriot1611
morel1611
cœur-cherry1626
bigarreau1629
May-cherry1629
morello1629
duracine1655
black heart1664
duke1664
red-hearta1678
prince royal1686
May duke1718
ox-heart1731
sand cherry1778
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > cherry > types of cherry
black cherry1530
geana1533
Plinian1577
mazzard1578
mazardc1595
merry1595
Flanders cherry1597
heart cherry1599
cherrylet1605
agriot1611
morel1611
cœur-cherry1626
bigarreau1629
May-cherry1629
morello1629
urinal cherry1629
white-heart cherry1629
duracine1655
heart1658
black heart1664
carnation1664
duke1664
honey cherrya1671
nonsuch1674
merise1675
red-hearta1678
prince royal1686
lukeward1707
white-heart1707
May duke1718
Royal Ann1724
ox-heart1731
ratafia1777
choke-cherry1785
mountain cherry1811
rum cherry1818
sour cherry1884
Napoleon1886
Napoleon cherry1933
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 68 in Sylva Cherries..Heart, Black, Red, White.]
a1678 T. Hanmer Garden Bk. (1933) 156 The best Cherryes for walls are the Duke, the Blacke Heart, a new cherry, the Red Heart, a good sort, the White Heart, [etc.].
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 546 In June are ripe the White, Red, Black and Bleeding Hearts.
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardener's Pocket Dict. I. 110 Red-Heart Cherry.
1833 H. Barnard Let. 25 May in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1918) 13 377 Here were..numerous trees of ripe cherries, black hearts and red hearts.
1887 Harper's Mag. Dec. 31/1 Under the largest of two red-heart cherry-trees sat a girl shelling pease.
1904 E. Glasgow Deliverance 238 I used to cut round old Fletcher's pasture..to keep from passin' by his red-heart cherry-tree.
1942 Frederick (Maryland) Post 10 Sept. 4/7 A fifty-year-old Red Heart cherry tree..is in full blossom.
1998 Z. B. Hamby Mem. Grassy Creek 189 Red cherries, Honey-heart and Red Heart, and Bing were the most common, followed by Black Heart and fewer May cherries.
2. Any of several fungal rots of trees characterized by red discoloration of the wood, esp. that caused by Phellinus pini, usually in pines and other conifers. Also: wood exhibiting such discoloration. Cf. red rot n. 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > causing disease in plants > rust-fungus
uredines1753
rust1801
uredo1836
rust fungus1841
mercury rust1864
uredo stage1880
uredine1889
microform1900
red-heart1907
1907 G. F. Schwarz Longleaf Pine in Virgin Forest ii. 24 A very common fungous disease in these longleaf pine forests is one known as ‘red-heart’.
1909 S. T. Dana Paper Birch in Northeast (U. S. Dept. Agric. Forest Serv. Circ. 163) 17 A serious defect in the wood is that known as ‘red heart’, which materially reduces the quality, strength, and value of the wood.
1931 Paper & Pulp Mag. Canada 30 Apr. 566/2 Torula ligniperda was found in sections of ‘red heart’ examined with the microscope.
2000 A. Thorpe Shifts (2001) 88 The forest had more than its fair share of ebony, mansonia, yellow-wood (West African teak), red-heart, and some big mahogany.
2006 R. H. Mohlenbrock This Land 165 The trees must be at least 60 years old, the age at which the center of most southern pine trunks begins to rot from the fungus that causes red heart disease.
3. Any of various trees or shrubs with reddish wood or bark; esp. (a) a tree of the Queensland rainforest, Dissilaria baloghioides (family Euphorbiaceae); (also) its durable timber; (b) a West Australian eucalyptus, E. decipiens; (c) U.S. an evergreen ceanothus of California, C. spinosus; (d) an acacia, Acacia nilotica, native to tropical Africa and naturalized elsewhere.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > North-American > ceanothus or red-root
redroot1709
Jersey tea1759
New Jersey tea1759
New Jersey tea1760
spirit weed1864
myrtle1880
ceanothus1882
buck's-eye1883
red-heart1911
1911 Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Sept. 13/4 Nobody has nominated red-heart, a timber which frequents the coastal scrubs of Queensland, for the hardest wood championship.
1926 J. Masefield Odtaa xiv. 231 He saw a footmark in some soft earth close to a red-heart.
1937 Range Plant Handbk. (Forest Service, U.S. Dept. Agric.) b39 The branches of a number of species, such as..redheart, or spiny myrtle (C. spinosus), end in spines.
1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 181/2 This thorny species [of acacia] is one of the most widespread trees of India, where it is known as black babool, and of parts of Africa, where it is called redheart.
1973 G. M. Chippendale Eucalypts W. Austral. Goldfields 93/1 Redheart is a spreading, twisted, gnarled tree.
2006 C. Arment Stick Insects Continental U.S. & Canada 41 Representative habitat and food plants:..Mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus), scrub oak (Quercus dumosa), chamise (Adenostoma), and redheart (Ceanothus spinosus).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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