cherry
- noun
- adjective
- B2
- Top 5000
A small round fruit with smooth red or dark red skin, sweet or sour taste, a long thin stem and a hard seed inside.
We picked a whole basket of cherries in my grandmother's garden.
She spat the cherry stone into her hand and kept eating.
The cake was covered with cream and a single red cherry.
Sour cherries are too sharp to eat raw, so we bake them.
Common collocations: a bowl of cherries · cherry stone · cherry jam · pick cherries · sour cherry · glacé cherry
Part of: Fruit, The garden
Forms
- plural
- cherries