cherry
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Noun (4)cherries
- wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherryType of woodSubstance of cherry tree
- any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwoodSynonyms: cherry treeType of fruit treeKinds flowering cherry, capulin, sweet cherry, chokecherry, sour cherry, Catalina cherry, wild cherryMember of Prunus, genus Prunus
- a red fruit with a single hard stoneType of edible fruit, drupeKinds sweet cherry, sour cherry, capulinPart of cherry tree
- a red the color of ripe cherriesSynonyms: cerisecherry redType of red, redness
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Translations
Noun cherry fruit
- Spanish
- cereza
- French
- cerise
- German
- Kirsche
- Italian
- ciliegia
- Portuguese
- cereja
- Turkish
- kiraz
- Russian
- ви́шня víšnja
- Arabic
- كَرَزَة karaza
- Chinese
- 樱桃 yīngtáo
- Japanese
- さくらんぼ sakuranbo
34 more languages
- Dutch
- kers
- Polish
- czereśnia
- Swedish
- körsbär
- Greek
- κεράσι kerási
- Korean
- 체리 cheri
- Indonesian
- ceri
- Vietnamese
- quả anh đào
- Hungarian
- cseresznye
- Portuguese (PT)
- cereja
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 櫻桃 yīngtáo
- Albanian
- qershi
- Breton
- kerezenn
- Catalan
- cirera
- Czech
- třešeň
- Danish
- kirsebær
- Esperanto
- ĉerizo
- Estonian
- kirss
- Finnish
- kirsikka
- Georgian
- ბალი bali
- Hebrew
- דובדבן duvd'van
- Icelandic
- kirsuber
- Kurdish
- gêlaz
- Latvian
- ķirsis
- Lithuanian
- vyšnia
- Norwegian
- kirsebær
- Romanian
- cireașă
- Scottish Gaelic
- siris
- Serbo-Croatian
- trešnja
- Slovak
- čerešňa
- Slovenian
- češnja
- Swahili
- cheri
- Walloon
- ceréjhe
- Welsh
- ceiriosen
- Yiddish
- קאַרש karsh
Noun cherry tree
- Spanish
- cerezo
- French
- cerisier
- German
- Kirschbaum
- Italian
- ciliegio
- Portuguese
- cerejeira
- Turkish
- kiraz
- Russian
- ви́шня víšnja
- Arabic
- شَجَرَة الْكَرَز šajarat al-karaz
- Japanese
- 桜 sakura
- Dutch
- kerselaar
19 more languages
- Polish
- wiśnia
- Swedish
- körsbärsträd
- Greek
- κερασιά kerasiá
- Hungarian
- cseresznyefa
- Portuguese (PT)
- cerejeira
- Catalan
- cirerer
- Czech
- třešeň
- Danish
- kirsebærtræ
- Esperanto
- ĉerizarbo
- Estonian
- kirsipuu
- Finnish
- kirsikkapuu
- Icelandic
- kirsuberjatré
- Lithuanian
- vyšnia
- Norwegian
- kirsebærtre
- Romanian
- cireș
- Serbo-Croatian
- trešnja
- Slovak
- čerešňa
- Slovenian
- češnja
- Yiddish
- קאַרשנבוים karshnboym
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf. AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L. cerasus Cherry tree, Gr. κερασός, perh. fr. κέρας horn, from the hardness of the wood.
1. Botany 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; Prunus Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; Prunus avium and Prunus 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 Zoology, 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 Botany, an evergreen shrub (Prunus Lauro-cerasus) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds. — Cherry pepper Botany, a species of Capsicum (Capsicum cerasiforme), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit. — Cherry pit. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. William Shakespeare (b) A cherry stone. — Cherry rum, rum in which cherries have been steeped. — Cherry sucker Zoology, 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.
Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54