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Cerasin :: Cerasin (n.) A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid..

Bob-cherry :: Bob-cherry (n.) A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth..

Arabinose :: Arabinose (n.) A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid..

Drupe :: Drupe (n.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut..

Gean :: Gean (n.) A species of cherry tree common in Europe (Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color..

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..

Raceme :: Raceme (n.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry..

Pentastichous :: Pentastichous (a.) Having, or arranged in, five vertical ranks, as the leaves of an apple tree or a cherry tree..

Barbadoes :: Barbadoes (n.) A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, 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..

Cerasinous :: Cerasinous (a.) Of a cherry color.

Dogberry :: Dogberry (n.) The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry.

Maraschino :: Maraschino (n.) A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia..

Mahaled :: Mahaled (n.) A cherry tree (Prunus Mahaleb) of Southern Europe. The wood is prized by cabinetmakers, the twigs are used for pipe stems, the flowers and leaves yield a perfume, and from the fruit a violet dye and a fermented liquor (like kirschwasser) are prepared..

Cherry :: Cherry (n.) A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry..

Mayduke :: Mayduke (n.) A large dark-red cherry of excellent quality.

Stem :: Stem (n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry..

Cherry :: Cherry (a.) Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks..

Cherry :: Cherry (n.) The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors..

Cherry :: Cherry (n.) The wild cherry; as, Prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. Padus, European trees (bird cherry)..

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