cherry

Plural: cherries

Noun

A small, round, red or black stone fruit.
wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry
any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
a red fruit with a single hard stone
a red the color of ripe 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.
Cherry red.
The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
A red cricket ball.
A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.
A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
The burning tip of a cigarette.

Adjective Satellite

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

Adj

Containing or having the taste of cherries.
Of a bright red color; cherry red.
In excellent condition; mint condition.

Verb

To redden; to infuse a cherrylike color to something.
To cheer, to delight.

Examples

Picking up CHERRY felt sweet, but he knew he needed a longer word.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.

Synonyms

blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry red, cherry tree, cherry-red, crimson, red, reddish, ruby, ruby-red, ruddy, scarlet, cherrytop

Scrabble Score: 14

cherry: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
cherry: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cherry: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

cherry: valid Words With Friends Word