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Adjective: cherry  cheree
  1. Of a colour at the end of the colour spectrum (next to orange); resembling the colour of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
    - red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet, reddy
Noun: cherry  cheree
  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
    - cherry tree
     
  3. A red fruit with a single hard stone
     
  4. A red the colour of ripe cherries
    - cerise, cherry red

Derived forms: cherries

See also: chromatic

Type of: drupe, edible fruit, fruit tree, red, redness, stone fruit, wood

Part of: genus Prunus, Prunus

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