sb. and a.
1. sb. In full white-heart cherry (for white heart-cherry; cf. black-heart s.v. BLACK a. 19): A light-colored variety of cultivated cherry.
1733. W. Ellis, Chiltern & Vale Farm., 143. The May-duke, White-hart, Black-Orleance and the Morella.
1869. Blackmore, Lorna D., xxvi. The blackbirds eating our white-heart cherries.
2. adj. Having a white or light-colored ‘heart.’
1900. Daily Express, 25 April, 6/4. Fine white-heart lettuces.
