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black⋅heart

[blak-hahrt]
–noun
1. Plant Pathology. a nonparasitic disease of plants, as of potatoes and various trees, in which internal plant tissues blacken, usually as a result of extremes in temperature.
2. Horticulture.
a. a heart cherry having a dark skin.
b. the tree bearing this fruit.

Origin:
1700–10; black + heart
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blackheart

noun
1. any of various diseases in which the central tissues blacken 
2. heart cherry with dark flesh and skin cherry 
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