cherry
cherry is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone
- noun. 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).
- noun. 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).
- noun. The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors.
- noun. The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc.
- noun. A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry.
- adjective. Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.
- noun. a red the color of ripe cherries
- 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
- adjective. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
Synonyms
cerise, carmine, crimson, red, reddish, ruby, ruddy, scarlet
Common word forms
cherried, cherrier, cherries, cherriest, cherrying
Words from these letters
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