cherry

Meaning

Noun

1. A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
2. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
3. The wood of a cherry tree.
4. Cherry red.
5. The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
6. (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
7. A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
8. (slang) A cricket ball.
9. A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
10. The burning tip of a cigarette.

Adj

1. Containing or having the taste of cherries.
2. Of a bright red colour; cherry red.
3. (informal) In excellent condition; mint condition.

Concepts

cherry

cerise

cherry tree

cherry blossom

cherry red

cherry-tree

crimson

cherries

cherry-red

cherry-coloured

blood-red

carmine

red

reddish

ruby

ruby-red

ruddy

scarlet

cherry-wood

wild cherry

cherry wood

hymen

virginity

redden

madder

cerasus

cerasum

flowering cherry

sweet cherry

bullace

sloe

maiden

virgin

sour cherry

cherrywood

Prunus cerasus

gean

morello cherry

pie cherry

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/

Etymology

From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise and kirsch.