cherry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry
  2. noun any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
    cherry tree.
  3. noun a red fruit with a single hard stone
  4. noun a red the color of ripe cherries
    cerise; cherry red.
  5. adjective satellite of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
    reddish; scarlet; crimson; blood-red; cerise; cherry-red; carmine; ruby-red; ruby; red; ruddy.

WordNet

Cher"ry noun
Etymology
OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf. AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L. cerasus Cherry tree, Gr. , perh. fr. horn, from the hardness of the wood.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) 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; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. 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.
Cher"ry adjective
Definitions
  1. Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.

Webster 1913