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Definition of cherry noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

cherry

noun
cherry pronunciation English ˈtʃeri cherry pronunciation American ˈtʃeri
 
plural cherries1 [countable] a small soft round fruit with shiny red or black skin and a large seed inside2 (also cherry tree) [countable] a tree on which cherries grow, or a similar tree, grown for its flowerscherry blossoma winter-flowering cherry3 (also cherrywood
cherrywood pronunciation English ˈtʃeriwʊd cherrywood pronunciation American ˈtʃeriwʊd
) [uncountable] the wood of the cherry tree4 (also cherry red) [uncountable] a bright red colour
Idioms
see a bite at/of the cherry at bite noun