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cher·ry

(chĕr′ē)

n. pl. cher·ries

a. Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Prunus of the rose family, especially the sweet cherry or the sour cherry, native chiefly to northern temperate regions and having pink or white flowers and small juicy drupes.

b. The yellow, red, or blackish fruit of any of these plants.

c. The wood of any of these plants, especially the black cherry.

d. Any of various plants, such as the Barbados cherry or the cornelian cherry, having fruits resembling a cherry.

2. A moderate or strong red to purplish red.

3. Vulgar Slang The hymen considered as a symbol of virginity.

adj.

1. Containing or having the flavor of cherries.

2. Made of the wood of a cherry tree: a cherry cabinet.

3. Of a moderate or strong red to purplish red.

[Middle English cheri, from Anglo-Norman cherise, variant of Old French cerise, from Vulgar Latin *ceresia, from *cerasia, from Greek kerasiā, cherry tree, from kerasos.]

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cherry

(ˈtʃɛrɪ)

n, pl -ries

1. (Plants) any of several trees of the rosaceous genus Prunus, such as P. avium (sweet cherry), having a small fleshy rounded fruit containing a hard stone. See also bird cherry

2. (Cookery) the fruit or wood of any of these trees

3. (Forestry) the fruit or wood of any of these trees

4. (Plants) any of various unrelated plants, such as the ground cherry and Jerusalem cherry

5. (Colours)

a. a bright red colour; cerise

b. (as adjective): a cherry coat.

6. slang virginity or the hymen as its symbol

7. (Plants) (modifier) of or relating to the cherry fruit or wood: cherry tart.

[C14: back formation from Old English ciris (mistakenly thought to be plural), ultimately from Late Latin ceresia, perhaps from Latin cerasus cherry tree, from Greek kerasios]

ˈcherry-ˌlike adj

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cher•ry

(ˈtʃɛr i)

n., pl. -ries,
adj. n.

1. the fruit of any of various trees belonging to the genus Prunus, of the rose family, consisting of a pulpy, globular drupe enclosing a one-seeded smooth stone.

2. the tree bearing such a fruit.

3. the reddish wood of the cherry tree, used in making furniture.

4. a bright red; cerise.

5. Slang: Usu. Vulgar.

a. the hymen.

b. virginity.

6. Slang.

a. something new or unused.

b. a novice.

adj.

7. bright red; cerise.

8. containing cherries or cherrylike flavoring.

9. Slang: Usu. Vulgar. sexually inexperienced; virginal.

10. Slang.

a. new or unused.

b. being a novice.

[1300–50; Middle English cheri, variant of chirie, back formation from Old English ciris- (taken for pl.) « Vulgar Latin *ceresium, for *cerasium (Latin cerasum) < Greek kerásion cherry]

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Noun	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
	2.	cherry - 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 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
	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
	4.	cherry - a red the color of ripe cherries cerise, cherry red red, redness - red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
Adj.	1.	cherry - of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, crimson, red, reddish, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet, ruddy chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue

Translations

كَرَزكَرْز

вишначерешачерешов

cireracirerer

třešeňtřešně

kirsebær

KirscheniegelnagelneuKirsch

κεράσι

ĉerizarboĉerizkoloroĉerizoĉerizujodolĉa ĉerizo

cereza guinda

kirsipuukirss

گیلاس

kirsikkakirsikkapuu

cerise cerisier hymen

trešnja

cseresznye

kirsuberkirsuberjatrékirsuberjaviður

ciliegia ciliegio ciliegio da fiori color ciliegia

サクランボ

버찌

cerasum

trešnėvyšnia

ķirsis

kers kriek

kirsebærkirsebærtremorell

czereśniawiśniowy

cereja cerejeira

вишня вишнёвый сакура черешня вишневый

čerešňa

češnja

körsbär

ผลเชอร์รี่

kiraz

quả anh đào

樱桃

cherry

[ˈtʃerɪ]

A. N (= fruit) → cereza f; (= tree, wood) → cerezo m

B. CPD [pie, jam] → de cereza
cherry brandy N → aguardiente m de cerezas
cherry orchard N → cerezal m
cherry red N → rojo m cereza
cherry tree N → cerezo m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cherry

[ˈtʃɛri]

(= fruit) → cerise f

(= tree) → cerisier m

modif [jam, tart] → aux cerisescherry blossom n → fleurs fpl de cerisiercherry-pick [ˈtʃɛripɪk] vt → trier sur le voletcherry-red [ˈtʃɛrirɛd] adj → (rouge) cerise invcherry tomato n → tomate f cerise

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cherry

n → Kirsche f; (= colour) → Kirschrot nt; wild cherry → Vogelkirsche f; life isn’t exactly a bowl of cherries for her right now → das Leben ist für sie im Moment kein Zuckerlecken

adj (colour) → kirschrot; (Cook) → Kirsch-

cherry

in cpds → Kirsch-;

cherry blossom

n → Kirschblüte f

cherry bomb

n (US) → Knallerbse f

cherry brandy

n → Cherry Brandy m

cherry orchard

n → Kirschgarten m

cherry-pick (fig inf)

vt → die Rosinen herauspicken aus (inf)

vi → sich (dat) → die Rosinen herauspicken

cherry picker

n (= vehicle) → Bockkran m

cherry-red

adj → kirschrot

cherry tomato

n → Kirschtomate f, → Cherrytomate f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cherry

[ˈtʃɛrɪ]

1. n (fruit) → ciliegia; (cherry tree) → ciliegio

2. adj (pie, jam) → di ciliegie

cherry

(ˈtʃeri) – plural ˈcherries – noun

a type of small usually red fruit with a stone.

cherry

→ كَرْز třešeň kirsebær Kirsche κεράσι cereza kirsikka cerise trešnja ciliegia サクランボ 버찌 kers kirsebær czereśnia cereja вишня körsbär ผลเชอร์รี่ kiraz quả anh đào 樱桃

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My cherries have all been stolen by those scamps of Gilman boys from the Glen."

It's more likely it's been the robins took your cherries. They're turrible thick this year."

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How lovely she used to look with the morning sun turning her hair to golden mist, and dancing in the blue deeps of her eyes; and once when by chance she had forgotten to fasten her gown, I caught glimpses of a bosom that was like two happy handfuls of wonderful white cherries .

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In this book it is rather the cheerful aspect of summer, those upland valleys of the Cevennes presenting then a symphony in red, so to call it--as in a land of cherries and goldfinches; and he has a genial power certainly of making you really feel the sun on the backs of the two boys out early for a long ramble, of old peasants resting themselves a little, with spare enjoyment, ere the end:--

Cherries in enormous bunches were hanging everywhere over our heads....

The actual scene, however, is cheerful enough on this early summer day--a symphony, as we said, in cherries and goldfinches, in which the higher valleys of the Cevennes abound.

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They had been eating cherries - great, luscious, black cherries with a juice of the color of dark wine.

She was pure, it was true, as he had never dreamed of purity; but cherries stained her lips.

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a-hem!" and when Gerda had told her everything, and asked her if she had not seen little Kay, the woman answered that he had not passed there, but he no doubt would come; and she told her not to be cast down, but taste her cherries, and look at her flowers, which were finer than any in a picture-book, each of which could tell a whole story.

On the table stood the most exquisite cherries, and Gerda ate as many as she chose, for she had permission to do so.

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Tommy, who was of a susceptible disposition, and very fond of his mother, and who had, besides, eaten so many cherries as to have his feelings less under command than usual, was so affected by the dreadful picture she had made of the possible future that he began to cry; and the good-natured father, indulgent to all weaknesses but those of negligent farmers, said to Hetty, "You'd better take the things off again, my lass; it hurts your aunt to see 'em."

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Near the end of May, the sand cherry (Cerasus pumila) adorned the sides of the path with its delicate flowers arranged in umbels cylindrically about its short stems, which last, in the fall, weighed down with goodsized and handsome cherries, fell over in wreaths like rays on every side.