Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/
cherry (plural cherries)
- A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
- Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
- The wood of a cherry tree.
- (color) Cherry red.
- (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
- (graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
- 2004, Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp, S Muthukrishnan, Ugur Dogrusoz, Combinatorial Pattern Matching
- Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v_1 \in T_1…
- 2005, Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels, Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology
- Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 2…
- 2004, Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp, S Muthukrishnan, Ugur Dogrusoz, Combinatorial Pattern Matching
- (cricket) A cricket ball.
- 2000, Woorkheri Raman, Indians adopt safety first tactics ↗, ESPNcricinfo:
- The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.
- 2007, Ben Dirs, England v West Indies 1st Test ↗, BBC:
- Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry.
- 2000, Woorkheri Raman, Indians adopt safety first tactics ↗, ESPNcricinfo:
- Cherrytop.
- Burning tip of a cigarette.
- French: cerise, (sour cherry) griotte
- German: Kirsche
- Italian: ciliegia
- Portuguese: cereja
- Russian: (sweet cherry) чере́шня
- Spanish: cereza, guinda
- French: cerisier
- German: Kirschbaum, Kirschenbaum
- Italian: ciliegio
- Portuguese: cerejeira
- Russian: ви́шня
- Spanish: cerezo Prunus avium, Prunus cerasus guindo
cherry
- Containing or having the taste of cherries.
- Of a bright red colour; cherry red.
- (informal, often, of cars) In excellent condition; mint condition.
- Russian: вишнёвый
- Portuguese: cereja
- Russian: вишнёвый
Cherry
Proper noun
- A female given name, a pet form of Charity, also interpreted as a flower name.
- 1844 Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter 26:
- 'As you knows Mrs Chuzzlewit, you knows, p’raps, what her chris’en name is?' Mrs Gamp observed.
- 'Charity,' said Bailey.
- 'That it ain’t!' cried Mrs Gamp.
- 'Cherry, then,' said Bailey. 'Cherry's short for it. It’s all the same.'
- 1844 Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter 26:
- Surname
cherry (plural Cherries)
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