blackaroon

plural blackaroons

1. rareuncountableusuallybiologyA species of small dark cherries found in Northern England and Scotland.

   Next follows the small black Cherry called the Blackaroon, which are also a profitable commodity for the barrows.

   1805, Sir Richard Phillips, Modern London, Being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis, page 501

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   Madock, White and Black Heart Cherries, Blackaroons, Kentish Cherries, and others, begin now to redden in abundance on the trees, and continue throughout the month, and part of the next; more particulars of which will be found in our catalogue of aestival fruits.

   1824, Thomas Ignatius M. Forster, The perennial calendar, page 328

   The chestnut was chestan (O. Fr. chastaigne); the wild cherry, gean or guin (Fr. guigne), a word still in use, and the name of which may be derived from Guienne, notwithstanding a notion prevailing in the north that the blackaroon, or blacksherry, was originally brought from Guines, in Artois.

   1882, Francisque Michel, A Critical Inquiry Into the Scottish Language with the View of Illustrating the Rise and Progress of Civilisation in Scotland, page 61

   Synonyms: blacksherry