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   cher·ry

   /ˈCHerē/

   noun

   • 1. a small, round stone fruit that is typically bright or dark red: "a bowl of cherries"
   • 2. the tree that bears the cherry.
   • ▪ the wood of the cherry tree.
   • ▪ used in names of plants unrelated to the cherry but with similar fruits, e.g., cornelian cherry.
   • 3. a bright deep red color: "her mouth was a bright cherry red"
   • 4. one's virginity: informal "only 3 percent of the students lost their cherry at college"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old Northern French cherise, from medieval Latin ceresia, based on Greek kerasos ‘cherry tree, cherry’. The final -s was lost because cherise was interpreted as plural (compare with caper2 and pea).

   Scrabble Points: 14

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