Cherry - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈtʃerɪ|  American pronunciation of the word cherry
Brit.  |ˈtʃerɪ|  British pronunciation of the word cherry

noun

- wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry
- any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
- a red fruit with a single hard stone
- a red the color of ripe cherries (syn: cerise)

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 (syn: blood-red, carmine, cerise, crimson, red, reddish, ruby, ruddy, scarlet)

Extra examples

The kitchen cabinets are made of cherry.

He stained the wood a dark cherry color.

...starting with the cherry tree, much of what was written by Washington's early biographers was pure poppycock...

...that kitchen gadget is an artful tool for extracting cherry pits...

Cherry is surrounded by threatening creatures, mostly the nightclub heavies.

The cherry tree was covered in blossom.

My flatmate Cherry drinks like a fish (=regularly drinks a lot of alcohol).

She served us some of her fabled cherry pie.

The cherry tree bloomed

Word forms

noun
singular: cherry
plural: cherries
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