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CHERRY
red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
(adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
cerise, cherry, cherry red
(noun) a red the color of ripe cherries
cherry
(noun) a red fruit with a single hard stone
cherry, cherry tree
(noun) any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
cherry
(noun) wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
cherry (plural cherries)
A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
The wood of a cherry tree.
(color) Cherry red.
(slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
(graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
(cricket) A cricket ball.
Cherrytop.
Burning tip of a cigarette.
Usage notes
Cherry includes, but is not limited to, the following species, of the genus Prunus: Prunus avium (wild cherry, mazzard, sweet cherry), P. cerasus (sour cherry), Prunus mahaleb (mahaleb cherry, rock cherry), Prunus pensylvanica (pin cherry, bird cherry), Prunus pumila (sand cherry), P. serotina (black cherry), Prunus serrulata (Japanese flowering cherry, hill cherry), and P. virginiana (chokecherry). Prunus also includes plums, peaches, apricots, and almonds.
Hypernyms
• (fruit): edible fruit, fruit
• (tree): tree, plant
Hyponyms
• bitter cherry (Prunus emarginata)
• clove cherry (Prunus apetala)
• cyclamen cherry (Prunus cyclamina)
• duke cherry (Prunus gondouinii)
• dwarf cherry (Prunus cerasus, Prunus fruticosa, Prunus pumila; Exocarpus strictus)
• evergreen cherry (Prunus ilicifolia)
• fire cherry (Prunus pensylvanica)
• greyleaf cherry (Prunus canescens)
• heart cherry (Prunus avium subsp. juliana)
• hollyleaf cherry (Prunus ilicifolia)
• humble bush cherry (Prunus humilis)
• laurel cherry (Prunus sect. Laurocerasus)
• marasca cherry (Prunus fruticosa)
• sweet cherry (Prunus avium)
• wild cherry (Prunus avium, P. serotina)
Adjective
cherry (comparative more cherry, superlative most cherry)
Containing or having the taste of cherries.
Of a bright red colour; cherry red.
(informal, often, of cars) In excellent condition; mint condition.
Proper noun
Cherry
A female given name from English, a pet form of Charity, also interpreted as a flower name.
A surname.
Noun
Cherry (plural Cherries)
(soccer) someone connected with AFC Bournemouth, as a fan, player, coach etc.
Source: Wiktionary
Cher"ry, n. Etym: [OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf. AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L. cerasus Cherry tree, Gr.
1. (Bot.)
Definition: A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Médoc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. Padus, European trees (bird cherry).
2. The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors.
3. The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc.
4. A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry. Barbadoes cherry. See under Barbadoes.
– Cherry bird (Zoöl.), an American bird; the cedar bird; -- so called from its fondness for cherries.
– Cherry bounce, cherry brandy and sugar.
– Cherry brandy, brandy in which cherries have been steeped.
– Cherry laurel (Bot.), an evergren shrub (Prunus Lauro-cerasus) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds.
– Cherry pepper (Bot.), a species of Capsicum (C. cerasiforme), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit.
– Cherry pit. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. Shak. (b) A cherry stone.
– Cherry rum, rum in which cherries have been steeped.
– Cherry sucker (Zoöl.), the European spotted flycatcher (Musicapa grisola); -- called also cherry chopper cherry snipe. Cherry tree, a tree that bears cherries.
– Ground cherry, Winter cherry, See Alkekengi.
Cher"ry, a.
Definition: Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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