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cherry

/ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/ noun B2
  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. Cherry red.
  5. The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
  6. Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen. (slang)
  7. A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
  8. A red cricket ball. (slang)

Plural cherries

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Oh, there are a lot more cherry-trees all in bloom!
Anne of Green Gables, p. 19 · C1
UP into the cherry tree
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 2 · C1
The wind purred softly in the cherry boughs, and the mint breaths came up to her.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 329 · C1
Its windows looked east and west; through the west one, looking out on the back yard, came a flood of mellow June sunlight; but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 4 · C1

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