Definition of cherry

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Cherry (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone.

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Bigaroon :: Bigaroon (n.) The large white-heart cherry.
Hagberry :: Hagberry (n.) A plant of the genus Prunus (P. Padus); the bird cherry.
Monocarpellary :: Monocarpellary (a.) Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond..
Egriot :: Egriot (n.) A kind of sour cherry.
Alkekengi :: Alkekengi (n.) An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato..
Cherry :: Cherry (n.) The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors..
Mayduke :: Mayduke (n.) A large dark-red cherry of excellent quality.
Raceme :: Raceme (n.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry..
Hawfinch :: Hawfinch (n.) The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble..
Merry :: Merry (n.) A kind of wild red cherry.
Bird Cherry :: Bird cherry () A shrub (Prunus Padus ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries.
Polyphemus :: Polyphemus (n.) A very large American moth (Telea polyphemus) belonging to the Silkworm family (Bombycidae). Its larva, which is very large, bright green, with silvery tubercles, and with oblique white stripes on the sides, feeds on the oak, chestnut, willow, cherry, apple, and other trees. It produces a large amount of strong silk. Called also American silkworm..
Cornel :: Cornel (n.) The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries..
Phlorizin :: Phlorizin (n.) A bitter white crystalline glucoside extracted from the root bark of the apple, pear, cherry, plum, etc..
Gum :: Gum (n.) A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins..
Pulpy :: Pulpy (n.) Like pulp; consisting of pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent; as, the pulpy covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or a cherry..
Mazard :: Mazard (n.) A kind of small black cherry.
Cherry :: Cherry (n.) The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc..
Cherry :: Cherry (n.) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Medoc in France)..
Pit :: Pit (n.) The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc..
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