hedgeberry, hedge-berry
A ‘berry’ or fruit growing in a hedge, as the blackberry; spec. applied to the hagberry or bird-cherry, Prunus Padus, and the common wild cherry, P. avium.
| 1623 Middleton More Dissemblers v. ii, Black in mouth, Like boys with eating hedge-berries. 1657 Coles Adam in Eden (Britten & Holl.), In Westmerland and Lancashire they call it [bird-cherry] the Hedge-berry-tree. 1866 Treas. Bot. 572/2 Hedgeberry, Cerasus avium. |