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rum cherry
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  rum cherry - large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruitblack cherry, black cherry tree, Prunus serotinawild cherry tree, wild cherry - an uncultivated cherry tree |
EncyclopediaSeeblack cherryRum Cherry
A deciduous shrub, the bark of which contains coumarins, cyanogenic glycosides, prussic acid, tannins, and volatile oil; it is antitussive, and an ingredient of cough syrups
Toxicity The pits and leaves contain hydrocyanic acid—which metabolizes to cyanide, causing incoordination, imbalance, possibly deathrum cherry
Related to rum cherry: black cherry treeSynonyms for rum cherrynoun large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruitSynonyms- black cherry
- black cherry tree
- Prunus serotina
Related Words- wild cherry tree
- wild cherry
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