noun.
A deciduous North American shrub or small tree (Prunus virginiana) in the rose family, having elongate clusters of small white flowers and astringent, dark red to nearly black fruit.
noun.
The fruit of this plant.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The popular name of an American species of wild cherry, Prunus Virginiana, remarkable for the astringency of its fruit.
noun.
In mining, choke-damp; after-damp.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.