has particulars: wild cherry, wild cherry tree, prunus avium, sweet cherry, capulin, capulin tree, prunus capuli, prunus cerasus, sour cherry, sour cherry tree, catalina cherry, prunus lyonii, flowering cherry, chokecherry, chokecherry tree, prunus virginiana

is a kind of fruit tree

cherry(n = noun.food) Array - a red fruit with a single hard stone; Array

is a kind of

edible fruit

drupe

stone fruit

has particulars: black cherry, sweet cherry, capulin, mexican black cherry, sour cherry

is a part of cherry, cherry tree

cherry(n = noun.attribute) cerise, cherry red - a red the color of ripe cherries; Array

is a kind of red, redness

Derived form adjective cherry₁

Adjective cherry has 1 sense

cherry(s = adj.all) blood-red, carmine, cerise, 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; Array

Derived form noun cherry₄

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CIDE DICTIONARY

cherry, n. [OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf. AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L. cerasus Cherry tree, Gr. keraso`s, perh. fr. ke`ras horn, from the hardness of the wood.].

A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; [1913 Webster]
The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors. [1913 Webster]
The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc. [1913 Webster]
A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry. [1913 Webster]

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 evergreen 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 (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. 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.

cherry, a.

Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

cherry, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a a small soft round stone-fruit. b any of several trees of the genus Prunus bearing this or grown for its ornamental flowers.
2 (in full cherry wood) the wood of a cherry.
3 US sl. a virginity. b a virgin.
--adj. of a light red colour.

Idiom

cherry brandy a dark-red liqueur of brandy in which cherries have been steeped. cherry-laurel Brit. a small evergreen tree, Prunus laurocerasus, with white flowers and cherry-like fruits. cherry-picker colloq. a crane for raising and lowering people. cherry-pie
1 a pie made with cherries.
2 a garden heliotrope.
cherry plum
1 a tree, Prunus cerasifera, native to SW Asia, with solitary white flowers and red fruits.
2 the fruit of this tree. cherry tomato a miniature tomato with a strong flavour.

Etymology

ME f. ONF cherise (taken as pl.: cf. PEA) f. med.L ceresia perh. f. L f. Gk kerasos

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ROGET THESAURUS

cherry

Purity

N purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus, Lucretia, Diana, prude, pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry, as chaste as unsunn'd snow, a soul as white as heaven, 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity, to the pure all things are pure.

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