Cherry

/ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/ · noun

Meaning

A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem..

Definitions by Sense

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. (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
7. (graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
8. (cricket, slang) A red cricket ball.

Example Sentences

"Well, Dangerfield, in less than an hour I'm off in search of my fortune. Jesus, I'm excited, like I was going to lose my cherry. Woke up this morning with an erection that almost touched the ceiling."

Nothing stands in your way when you're a boy / Clothes always fit ya / Life is a pop of the cherry when you're a boy

Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted.

So what bitch, I busted your cherry – / Hell fucking no, I don’t wanna git married

Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v#95;1#92;inT#95;1

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

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

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

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Word Forms

• cherries
• cherrier
• more cherry
• cherriest
• most cherry
• cherrying
• cherried

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