Other forms: cherries
A cherry is a small round dark-red fruit with a long stem. A bowl of cherries, cherry stones, cherry tree.
Sweet and sour kinds are different species and only the second is much good cooked. The blossom is celebrated more than the fruit in Japan. A cherry-picker is a lifting platform, named from the job; and to cherry-pick is to choose only the favourable cases, which is a named fault in argument.
1nouncherryA small round dark-red fruit with a long stem.
“She put a cherry on top of each cake.”
cherry is a fruit.
Also accepted in games: cherries
Anglo-Norman cherise was mistaken for a plural, and English made a new singular from it. The Latin is ceresia.
Ancient Greek
κεράσιον — cherry fruit
Latin
ceresium
Vulgar Latin
ceresia
Proto-West Germanic
*kirsijā
Old English
ċiris
Anglo-Norman
cherise
Middle English
chery
English, today
cherry
Built from
From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), from Proto-West Germanic kirsijā, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (“cherry fruit”), from κερασός (“bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of ine-ana - origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). a doublet of cerise and Giresun and kirsch.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA