Cherry

['tʃerɪ] or ['tʃɛri]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a red fruit with a single hard stone.

(noun.) any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood.

(noun.) wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry.

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解釋/意思:

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

(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).

(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).

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

(n.) The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc.

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

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

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解釋/意思:

n. a small bright-red stone-fruit: the tree that bears it.—adj. like a cherry in colour: ruddy.—ns. Cherr′y-brand′y a pleasant liqueur made by steeping Morello cherries in brandy; Cherr′y-lau′rel the common English name for the Cerasus Lauro-Cerasus of Asia Minor; Cherr′y-pepp′er a West Indian species of Capsicum; Cherr′y-pie a pie made of cherries; the common heliotrope; Cherr′y-pit a game which consists in throwing cherry-stones into a small hole; Cherr′y-stone the hard seed of the cherry.

v.t. (Spens.) to cheer.

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