cherry

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see also: Cherry

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Pronunciation

• (British, America) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/

Noun

cherry (plural cherries)

1. A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
2. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
3. The wood of a cherry tree.
4. (color) Cherry red.
5. (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
6. (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…

7. (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.

8. Cherrytop.
9. Burning tip of a cigarette.

Translations

• French: cerise, (sour cherry) griotte
• German: Kirsche
• Italian: ciliegia
• Portuguese: cereja
• Russian: (sweet cherry) чере́шня
• Spanish: cereza, guinda

Translations

• French: cerisier
• German: Kirschbaum, Kirschenbaum
• Italian: ciliegio
• Portuguese: cerejeira
• Russian: ви́шня
• Spanish: cerezo Prunus avium, Prunus cerasus guindo

Translations

• German: Kirschenholz
• Italian: ciliegio
• Portuguese: cerejeira
• Russian: ви́шня

Translations

• Italian: ciliegia
• Portuguese: cereja
• Russian: вишнёвый
• Spanish: guinda, cereza

Translations

• French: cerise
• Portuguese: cabaço
• Russian: це́лка

Adjective

cherry

1. Containing or having the taste of cherries.
2. Of a bright red colour; cherry red.
3. (informal, often, of cars) In excellent condition; mint condition.

Related terms

• cerise

Translations

• Russian: вишнёвый

Translations

• Portuguese: cereja
• Russian: вишнёвый

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Cherry

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Proper noun

1. 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.'

2. Surname

Noun

cherry (plural Cherries)

1. (soccer) someone connected with AFC Bournemouth, as a fan, player, coach etc.

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