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CHERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A red the color of ripe cherries
Synonyms:
cerise; cherry; cherry red
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)
Sense 2
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 3
Meaning:
Any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
Synonyms:
cherry; cherry tree
Classified under:
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 4
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)
II. (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
Classified under:
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Derivation:
cherry (a red the color of ripe cherries)
Context examples:
And later, as she read aloud to him from "The Princess," he chanced to notice the stain of the cherries on her lips.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Then, she turned faint; and was so very ill that they were obliged to give her cherry brandy.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
That night, on going to bed, I forgot to prepare in imagination the Barmecide supper of hot roast potatoes, or white bread and new milk, with which I was wont to amuse my inward cravings: I feasted instead on the spectacle of ideal drawings, which I saw in the dark; all the work of my own hands: freely pencilled houses and trees, picturesque rocks and ruins, Cuyp-like groups of cattle, sweet paintings of butterflies hovering over unblown roses, of birds picking at ripe cherries, of wren's nests enclosing pearl-like eggs, wreathed about with young ivy sprays.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Feeling that the neighbors were interested in her movements, she wished to efface the memory of yesterday's failure by a grand success today, so she ordered the 'cherry bounce', and drove away in state to meet and escort her guests to the banquet.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She was pure, it was true, as he had never dreamed of purity; but cherries stained her lips.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
For a handsome and not an unamiable-looking man, he repelled me exceedingly: there was no power in that smooth-skinned face of a full oval shape: no firmness in that aquiline nose and small cherry mouth; there was no thought on the low, even forehead; no command in that blank, brown eye.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They had been eating cherries—great, luscious, black cherries with a juice of the color of dark wine.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But no—eventide is as pleasant to him as to me, and this antique garden as attractive; and he strolls on, now lifting the gooseberry-tree branches to look at the fruit, large as plums, with which they are laden; now taking a ripe cherry from the wall; now stooping towards a knot of flowers, either to inhale their fragrance or to admire the dew-beads on their petals.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Then he realized the significance of it, and his heart began pounding and challenging him to play the lover with this woman who was not a spirit from other worlds but a mere woman with lips a cherry could stain.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He strayed down a walk edged with box, with apple trees, pear trees, and cherry trees on one side, and a border on the other full of all sorts of old-fashioned flowers, stocks, sweet-williams, primroses, pansies, mingled with southernwood, sweet-briar, and various fragrant herbs.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
