CHERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cherry mean? 

• CHERRY (noun)
  The noun CHERRY has 4 senses:

1. wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry

2. any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood

3. a red fruit with a single hard stone

4. a red the color of ripe cherries

  Familiarity information: CHERRY used as a noun is uncommon.

• CHERRY (adjective)
  The adjective CHERRY has 1 sense:

1. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

  Familiarity information: CHERRY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cherry" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("cherry" is a substance of...):

cherry; cherry tree (any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cherry; cherry tree

Hypernyms ("cherry" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "cherry"):

cherry (a red fruit with a single hard stone)

Meronyms (substance of "cherry"):

cherry (wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cherry"):

wild cherry; wild cherry tree (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; chokecherry tree; Prunus virginiana (a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds)

Holonyms ("cherry" is a member of...):

genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A red fruit with a single hard stone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cherry" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

drupe; stone fruit (fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cherry"):

black cherry; sweet cherry (any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh)

capulin; Mexican black cherry (Mexican black cherry)

sour cherry (acid cherries used for pies and preserves)

Holonyms ("cherry" is a part of...):

cherry; cherry tree (any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A red the color of ripe cherries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cerise; cherry; cherry red

Hypernyms ("cherry" is a kind of...):

red; redness (red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood)

Derivation:

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)

• CHERRY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Synonyms:

blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; cherry-red; crimson; red; reddish; ruby; ruby-red; ruddy; scarlet

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

cherry (a red the color of ripe cherries)

 Context examples 

Her lips were flesh like his, and cherries dyed them as cherries dyed his.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In cherry orchards, the scientists found, kestrels significantly reduced the number of birds that eat fruit.

(American kestrels, most common predatory birds in U.S., can reduce need for pesticide use, National Science Foundation)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles cherry.

(Cherry Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

I was going to kiss her, but she covered her cherry lips with her hands, and said she wasn't a baby now, and ran away, laughing more than ever, into the house.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom—apple, plum, pear, cherry; and as we drove by I could see the green grass under the trees spangled with the fallen petals.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I sometimes regretted that I was not handsomer; I sometimes wished to have rosy cheeks, a straight nose, and small cherry mouth; I desired to be tall, stately, and finely developed in figure; I felt it a misfortune that I was so little, so pale, and had features so irregular and so marked.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Morning decidedly the best time—never tired—every sort good—hautboy infinitely superior—no comparison—the others hardly eatable—hautboys very scarce—Chili preferred—white wood finest flavour of all—price of strawberries in London—abundance about Bristol—Maple Grove—cultivation—beds when to be renewed—gardeners thinking exactly different—no general rule—gardeners never to be put out of their way—delicious fruit—only too rich to be eaten much of—inferior to cherries—currants more refreshing—only objection to gathering strawberries the stooping—glaring sun—tired to death—could bear it no longer—must go and sit in the shade.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Great rounds of beef, saddles of mutton, smoking tongues, veal and ham pies, turkeys and chickens, and geese, with every variety of vegetables, and a succession of fiery cherries and heavy ales were the main staple of the feast.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And the dried cherries too!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The carriages were promised, Meg and Mother were all ready to do the honors, Beth was able to help Hannah behind the scenes, Jo had engaged to be as lively and amiable as an absent mind, and aching head, and a very decided disapproval of everybody and everything would allow, and as she wearily dressed, Amy cheered herself with anticipations of the happy moment when, lunch safely over, she should drive away with her friends for an afternoon of artistic delights, for the 'cherry bounce' and the broken bridge were her strong points.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)