"cherry" meaning in English

See cherry in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈʧɐri/ Audio: en-us-cherry.ogg [US], En-uk-cherry.ogg [UK] Forms: cherry [singular], cherries [plural]
Head templates: {{irrnoun|cherries}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A cherry is a roundish small piece of fruit with a core inside. Its color varies from pale yellow to red or purple and even nearly black.
    Sense id: simple-cherry-en-noun-VMpU1K2r
  2. By extension, cherry can also be the tree or the bush bearing this fruit.
    Sense id: simple-cherry-en-noun-kblWmznE
  3. The wood of which a cherry tree is made of.
    Sense id: simple-cherry-en-noun-POFOmjeq
  4. Cherry is also the color of the fruit, bright red or purple.
    Sense id: simple-cherry-en-noun-HKULUvgA
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        {
          "text": "We should eat our cherries quickly before birds get them all eaten!"
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    },
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      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Cherry is a color that human eyes immediately remark."
        },
        {
          "text": "Her cherry make-up makes her look ugly."
        },
        {
          "text": "(uncountable) Cherry is the flavour or smell of cherries."
        },
        {
          "text": "This cherry perfume is rather strange but not unpleasant at all."
        }
      ],
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        "Cherry is also the color of the fruit, bright red or purple."
      ],
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        {
          "text": "We should eat our cherries quickly before birds get them all eaten!"
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        },
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          "text": "Her cherry make-up makes her look ugly."
        },
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        },
        {
          "text": "This cherry perfume is rather strange but not unpleasant at all."
        }
      ],
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      ],
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