a smooth yellow to deep red or blackish fruit with sweet flesh and a hard stone
any of numerous species of trees and shrubs of the rose family that bears this fruit and are often has cultivated for their ornamental flowers: genus Prunus
the wood of the cherry tree or shrub
a bright red colour
informal virginity
cherry adj
[Middle English chery from early French cherise (taken as a plural) via Latin from Greek kerasos cherry tree]