| cherry | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. cherry | wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry. |
| ~ cherry tree, cherry | any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood. |
| ~ wood | the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees. |
| n. (plant) | 2. cherry, cherry tree | any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood. |
| ~ cherry | a red fruit with a single hard stone. |
| ~ genus prunus, prunus | a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions. |
| ~ cherry | wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry. |
| ~ wild cherry tree, wild cherry | an uncultivated cherry tree. |
| ~ prunus avium, sweet cherry | large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation. |
| ~ capulin, capulin tree, prunus capuli | Mexican black cherry tree having edible fruit. |
| ~ prunus cerasus, sour cherry, sour cherry tree | rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit. |
| ~ catalina cherry, prunus lyonii | evergreen shrub or small tree found on Catalina Island (California). |
| ~ flowering cherry | any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Prunus cultivated for their showy white or pink single or double blossoms. |
| ~ chokecherry tree, prunus virginiana, chokecherry | a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds. |
| ~ fruit tree | tree bearing edible fruit. |
| n. (food) | 3. cherry | a red fruit with a single hard stone. |
| ~ edible fruit | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh. |
| ~ black cherry, sweet cherry | any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh. |
| ~ mexican black cherry, capulin | Mexican black cherry. |
| ~ sour cherry | acid cherries used for pies and preserves. |
| ~ cherry tree, cherry | any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood. |
| ~ drupe, stone fruit | fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. cerise, cherry, cherry red | a red the color of ripe cherries. |
| ~ red, redness | red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood. |
| adj. | 5. blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, red, reddish, ruby, ruby-red, ruddy, scarlet | of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies. |
| ~ chromatic | being or having or characterized by hue. |
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