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: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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(noun) a red the color of ripe cherries | Synonyms: cerise, cherry red |
(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 | Synonyms: cherry tree |
(noun) wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry | - |
cherrystone | (noun) a half-grown quahog | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
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(noun) small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
chokecherry | (noun) a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds | Synonyms: chokecherry tree, Prunus virginiana |
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(noun) the fruit of the chokecherry tree | - |
herrerasaur | (noun) a kind of theropod dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: herrerasaurus |
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herrerasaurus | (noun) a kind of theropod dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: herrerasaur |
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herring | (noun) commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Clupea harangus |
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(noun) valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled | - |
herringbone | (noun) a twilled fabric with a herringbone pattern | - |
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(noun) a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way; it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery | Synonyms: herringbone pattern |
sherry | (noun) dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif | - |
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wherry | (noun) light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors | - |
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(noun) sailing barge used especially in East Anglia | Synonyms: Norfolk wherry |