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cherry

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Noun

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Singular
cherry

Plural
cherries

Some cherries
  1. (countable) A cherry is a roundish small piece of fruit with a core inside. Its color varies from pale yellow to red or purple and even nearly black.
    We should eat our cherries quickly before birds get them all eaten!
  2. (countable) By extension, cherry can also be the tree or the bush bearing this fruit.
  3. (uncountable) The wood of which a cherry tree is made of.
  4. (uncountable) Cherry is also the color of the fruit, bright red or purple.
    Cherry is a color that human eyes immediately remark.
    Her cherry make-up makes her look ugly.
    (uncountable) Cherry is the flavour or smell of cherries.
    This cherry perfume is rather strange but not unpleasant at all.