different between cherrystone vs cherry

English

Etymology

cherry +? stone

Noun

cherrystone (plural cherrystones)

1. (used as a size classification by fish merchants) A hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) that is larger than a countneck, littleneck or topneck but smaller than a quahog.
   • 1937, Damon Runyon, A Piece of Pie

     Miss Violette Shumberger names twelve dozen cherrystone clams as the second course, and Joe Duffle says two gallons of Philadelphia pepperpot soup as the third.

English

Etymology

From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ?iris, ?irse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from ??????? (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic ? suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t????i/
• Rhymes: -??i

Noun

cherry (plural cherries)

1. A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
2. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
3. The wood of a cherry tree.
4. (color) Cherry red.
5. (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
6. (graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
   • 2004, Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp, S Muthukrishnan, Ugur Dogrusoz, Combinatorial Pattern Matching

     Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry ${\displaystyle v_{1}\in T_{1}}$…

   • 2005, Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels, Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology

     Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 2…

7. (cricket, slang) A cricket ball.
   • 2000, Woorkheri Raman, Indians adopt safety first tactics, ESPNcricinfo:

     The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.

   • 2007, Ben Dirs, England v West Indies 1st Test, BBC:

     Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry.

8. Cherrytop.
9. Burning tip of a cigarette.

Usage notes

Cherry includes, but is not limited to, the following species, of the genus Prunus: Prunus avium (wild cherry, mazzard, sweet cherry), P. cerasus (sour cherry), Prunus mahaleb (mahaleb cherry, rock cherry), P. pensylvanica (pin cherry, bird cherry), P. pumila (sand cherry), P. serotina (black cherry), P. serrulata (Japanese flowering cherry, hill cherry), and P. virginiana (chokecherry). Prunus also includes plums, peaches, apricots, and almonds.

Hypernyms

• (fruit): edible fruit, fruit
• (tree): tree, plant

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• Cherry Green

Descendants

Translations

See also

• gean

Adjective

cherry (comparative cherrier or more cherry, superlative cherriest or most cherry)

1. Containing or having the taste of cherries.
2. Of a bright red colour; cherry red.
3. (informal, often of cars) In excellent condition; mint condition.

Derived terms

Related terms

• cerise

Translations

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??eri/, [?t??e.ri]

Noun

cherry m (plural cherrys or cherries)

1. cherry tomato