"cherry" in the noun sense

1. cherry

wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry

2. 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

3. cherry

a red fruit with a single hard stone

4. cerise, cherry, cherry red

a red the color of ripe cherries

"cherry" in the adjective sense

1. red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet

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

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