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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

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;
[syn: cherry, cherry tree]

3. a red fruit with a single hard stone;

4. a red the color of ripe cherries;
[syn: cerise, cherry, cherry red]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies;
[syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bob \Bob\, v. i. 1. To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything. "Bobbing and courtesying." --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] 2. To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3. [1913 Webster] He ne'er had learned the art to bob For anything but eels. --Saxe. [1913 Webster] To bob at an apple, cherry, etc. to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cherry \Cher"ry\ (ch[e^]r"r[y^]), a. Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cherry \Cher"ry\ (ch[e^]r"r[y^]), n. [OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf. AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L. cerasus Cherry tree, Gr. keraso`s, perh. fr. ke`ras horn, from the hardness of the wood.] 1. (Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) 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 M['e]doc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, Prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; Prunus Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; Prunus avium and Prunus Padus, European trees (bird cherry). [1913 Webster] 2. The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors. [1913 Webster] 3. The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc. [1913 Webster] 4. A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry. [1913 Webster] Barbadoes cherry. See under Barbadoes. Cherry bird (Zool.), an American bird; the cedar bird; -- so called from its fondness for cherries. Cherry bounce, cherry brandy and sugar. Cherry brandy, brandy in which cherries have been steeped. Cherry laurel (Bot.), an evergreen shrub (Prunus Lauro-cerasus) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds. Cherry pepper (Bot.), a species of Capsicum (Capsicum cerasiforme), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit. Cherry pit. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. --Shak. (b) A cherry stone. Cherry rum, rum in which cherries have been steeped. Cherry sucker (Zool.), the European spotted flycatcher (Musicapa grisola); -- called also cherry chopper cherry snipe. Cherry tree, a tree that bears cherries. Ground cherry, Winter cherry, See Alkekengi. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cherry adj 1: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet] n 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 [syn: cherry, cherry tree] 3: a red fruit with a single hard stone 4: a red the color of ripe cherries [syn: cerise, cherry, cherry red]
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000):

Cherry -- U.S. County in Nebraska Population (2000): 6148 Housing Units (2000): 3220 Land area (2000): 5960.522867 sq. miles (15437.682699 sq. km) Water area (2000): 49.019880 sq. miles (126.960902 sq. km) Total area (2000): 6009.542747 sq. miles (15564.643601 sq. km) Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31 Location: 42.651785 N, 101.147203 W Headwords: Cherry Cherry, NE Cherry County Cherry County, NE
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Cherry, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois Population (2000): 509 Housing Units (2000): 220 Land area (2000): 0.538056 sq. miles (1.393559 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.538056 sq. miles (1.393559 sq. km) FIPS code: 12970 Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17 Location: 41.426628 N, 89.212422 W ZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Cherry, IL Cherry